Django view - load template from calling app's dir first

Question

I try to keep a somewhat consistent naming scheme on my HTML templates. I.e. index.html for main, delete.html for delete page and so forth. But the app_directories

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread, but I made something reusable, that allows for simpler namespacing. You could load the following as a Template Loader. It will find appname/index.html in appname/templates/index.html.

Gist available here: https://gist.github.com/871567

"""
Wrapper for loading templates from "templates" directories in INSTALLED_APPS
packages, prefixed by the appname for namespacing.

This loader finds `appname/templates/index.html` when looking for something
of the form `appname/index.html`.
"""

from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist
from django.template.loaders.app_directories import app_template_dirs, Loader as BaseAppLoader

class Loader(BaseAppLoader):
    '''
    Modified AppDirecotry Template Loader that allows namespacing templates
    with the name of their app, without requiring an extra subdirectory
    in the form of `appname/templates/appname`.
    '''
    def load_template_source(self, template_name, template_dirs=None):
        try:
            app_name, template_path = template_name.split('/', 1)
        except ValueError:
            raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name)

        if not template_dirs:
            template_dirs = (d for d in app_template_dirs if
                    d.endswith('/%s/templates' % app_name))

        return iter(super(Loader, self).load_template_source(template_path,
                template_dirs))