Need to convert a string to int in a django template

Question

I am trying to pass in url parameters to a django template like this...

response = render_to_string(\'persistConTemplate.html\', request.GET)
         


        

Answer 1

You should add some code to your view to unpack the GET params and convert them to the values you want. Even if numItems were an integer, the syntax you're showing wouldn't give you the output you want.

Try this:

ctx = dict(request.GET)
ctx['numItems'] = int(ctx['numItems'])
response = render_to_string('persistConTemplate.html', ctx)