Arguments in depth¶

Examples given here are in tabular form. The non-standard options are a list of options to the argument class which are not the default value. The input is the single token in your template tag that gets consumed by this argument class. The output is the value you get in your render_tag method for the keyword of this argument.

Context for all examples: {'name': 'classytags'}

Argument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
	`name`	`'classytags'`
	`'name'`	`'name'`
`resolve=False`	`name`	`'name'`
`default='myvalue'`		`'myvalue'`

KeywordArgument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
	`key=name`	`{'key': 'classytags'}`
	`key='name'`	`{'key': 'name'}`
`defaultkey='mykey'`	`name`	`{'defaultkey': 'classytags'}`
`defaultkey='mykey'`		`{'mykey': None}`
`resolve=False`	`key=name`	`{'key': 'name'}`
`splitter='->'`	`key=name->'value'`	`{'key=name': 'value'}`

IntegerArgument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
	`'1'`	`1`
	`name`	`0`

ChoiceArgument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
`choices=['choice']`	`name`	`'choice'`
`choices=['choice', 'classytags']`	`name`	`'classytags'`

MultiValueArgument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
		`[]`
	`name 'is' 'awesome'`	`['classytags', 'is', 'awesome']`

MultiKeywordArgument¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
		`{}`
	`name=name awesome='yes'`	`{'name': 'classytags', 'awesome': 'yes'}`
`splitter=':', resolve=False`	`hello:world`	`{'hello': 'world'}`

Flag¶

Examples¶
Non-standard options	Input	Output
`true_values=['true', 'yes']`	`name`	`False`
`true_values=['true', 'yes']`	`'YES'`	`True`
`true_values=['true', 'yes'], case_sensitive=True`	`'YES'`	`False`