Accessing session variable in Django template with Google App Engine (Webapp) - Python

Question

Hi,

I have a Django template as my front-end. At the back-end, I used the sessions provided from Gaeutilities to store a variable (email).

Front-end:

{% if session.Email %}
        <div id="entersite">WELCOME <em>{{session.Email}}</em></div>
    {% else %}
        <div id= "entersite"><a href="/login/" id= "entersite">Enter the Site</a></div>
    {% endif %}

Back-end:

self.session = Session()
self.session['email'] = email
            temp = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'templates/index.htm')
            outstr = template.render(temp, {})
            self.response.out.write(outstr)

Problem: How do I access the stored session on the server side and use it on the Django template (front-end)?

Anybody can give an update on this qns?

Answer 1

Hello,

You need to set your session object in a django template context, no?

template.render(temp, {'session':self.session})

Answer 2

Hi,

By doing so, you are just rendering the template with the session value. What happens is that when I click on a link to another page, and from that page return back to the same template, the session value are not being displayed. This is because I did not render the session value to the template from the page. What I wanted to do is to create a session at the back-end and traverse several pages and when I go back to the template, the session value can still be retrieved. Any ideas?