Django inclusion tag with configurable template

Question

I've created an inclusion tag, however I'd like to be able to make the template optionally configurable. There doesn't seem to be support for this out of the box, so I'd like to see how people did this - maybe a method search the templates directory first for a specific template name and then falling back to the default template.

@register.inclusion_tag('foo.html', takes_context=True)

Answer 1

The inclusion_tag decorator is just a shortcut - it's meant as a simple way of rendering a specific template with a specific context. As soon as you want to move outside of that, it can no longer help you. But that just means you'll have to write the tag the long way, as explained in the documentation, and pass the template you want as a parameter.