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Unable to integrate a 3rd party app template loader with askbot
 
   
  
 
 
I'm trying to integrate django_mobile with my askbot app. But I'm unable to integrate it because django_mobile's custom template_loader is not identified by coffin and is ignored. 
 
It throws this warning UserWarning: 
 
Cannot translate loader: django_mobile.loader.Loader

 
My TEMPLATE_LOADERS setting is something like this:
 
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'askbot.skins.loaders.Loader',
    'django_mobile.loader.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader'
)

 
I have tried tracing it down and fixing it but haven't yet hit a solution. What I could workout so far is this.
 
Coffin translates each of the template loader into a corresponding Jinja loader and warns if it can't be translated. This is where the translation is done. Now coffin can't find a suitable translation for 'django_mobile.loader.Loader' as it only translates some specific loaders with jinja_loader_from_django_loader.
 
What could be done to solve this?
 
 
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    asked 11 years ago,
        
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I think it will help you to understand the problem better by looking into the askbot/skins/loaders.py. Also look at the askbot documentation about the "custom skins". Perhaps it's a good idea to build "mobile" loader into the askbot skin loader, not replace it. Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for you.
 
 
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It should be possible to implement such functionality by subclassing askbot.skins.loaders.Loader.
 
In the load_template method somehow apply mobile browser detection (there is no direct access to request object and you'll need some workaround), then load corresponding template.
 
 
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But I would need to keep my newly created loader (by subclassing askbot.skins.loaders.Loader) at the beginning of the TEMPLATE_LOADERS property and askbot won't allow any loader before the askbot.skins.loaders.Loader. Also there seems to be no way to turn off the startup tests and hence I won't be able to use my custom loader.
 
 
 vikas.gulati's avatar vikas.gulati (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
Regarding mobile detection without the request object. That would be easily handled with the get_flavous() function provided by django_mobile (as it sets the flavour in middleware itself.)
 
 
 vikas.gulati's avatar vikas.gulati (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
Any updates on this? Facing a similar problem
 
 
 snigdha's avatar snigdha (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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