I'm not able to access MEDIA_URL
in my class-based view.
My understanding has been that I would create my view, and my context processor would provide it into my function-based view. Now I'm trying to switch to class-based, and I no longer have access to MEDIA_URL
.
Do context processors not work with class-based views? Do I have to add it to my context manually now?
Here are my processors:
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.media',
'django.core.context_processors.static',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
)
My previous views looked something like:
def my_view(request):
context = {
"foo": "bar"
}
return render(request, 'index.html', context)
And I would be able to use {{MEDIA_URL}}
.
My class-based view looks like:
class MyView(View):
def get(self, request):
context = {
"foo": "bar"
}
return render(request, 'index.html', context)
And I cannot access {{MEDIA_URL}}
Django 1.8 moved the configuration of TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
to the TEMPLATES
setting. Beyond that I don't think you shouldn't need to access MEDIA_URL
in the template. It's a bad code smell to me. You should be using the url generated from the file storage api (i.e. {{ model.field.url }}
).