I looked at similar forums but was not able to get any of the solutions to work. I am trying to pass variables from flask to my java script file. These values then will be used for PubNub from my javascript file.
Here is part of my Python code:
@app.route("/mysettings/")
def user_settings():
return render_template('Settings.html', project_name = session['project_name'] , publish_key = session['publish_key'] , subscribe_key = session['subscribe_key'] )
Here is part of my javascript code (app.js):
var settings = {
channel: {{project_name}},
publish_key: {{publish_key}},
subscribe_key: {{subscribe_key}}
};
this code works if I use it in my Settings.html file but not in the app.js file.
The mobiusklein answers is pretty good, but there is "hack" you should consider. Define your Javascript method to receive params and send data as params to your function.
main.py
@app.route('/')
def hello():
data = {'username': 'Pang', 'site': 'stackoverflow.com'}
return render_template('settings.html', data=data)
app.js
function myFunc(vars) {
return vars
}
settings.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" {{ url_for('static', filename='app.js')}}></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
myVar = myFunc({{vars|tojson}})
</script>
</head>
</html>
Simple way to pass variables from flask view to template to javascript file with simple example mentioned by @mauro.
main.py
@app.route('/')
def hello():
data = {'username': 'Pang', 'site': 'stackoverflow.com'}
return render_template('settings.html', data=data)
settings.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var username = {{ data.username }}
var site = {{ data.site }}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="app.js"></script>
</head>
</html>
app.js
function myFunc() {
return username + site
}
The reason is that jinja2
needs to be used to perform the substitution, which from your code doesn't appear to be happening.
Chances are you're serving app.js
as a static file, which means that it is never looked at by the templating engine machinery, just served as is.
You can accomplish what you're describing by serving app.js
from a URL which is tied to an action which passes the contents of app.js
through Flask's render_template
function, performing jinja2
substitutions, and all the other customization information, but that means jinja2
has to parse the whole file, which can be expensive.
You might try to pass those variables along using an AJAX request responded to by an action that sends back that same data in JSON. This is a much more common practice, and has the added value of making that data visible to other resources.