Rendering Blocks

Thanks to django-render-block there is a way to reduce using includes. Instead of needing to split out templates into includes to use them for partials, you can specify a block from the template to use and that block will be rendered by the HXRequest.

Example

Using the example from forms, instead of using an include, we can replace that with a block

user_info_page.html (what it originally was)

{% load hx_tags %}
<div id="user_info">
    {% include 'user_info.html' %}
</div>
<form method="post">
    <div hx-trigger='load'
        {% hx_get 'user_info_form' object=request.user %}>
    </div>
    <button type="submit"
            hx-target="#user_info"
            {% hx_post 'user_info_form' object=request.user %}>
            Submit
    </button>
</form>

user_info_page.html (modified to use block rendering)

{% load hx_tags %}
<div id="user_info">
    {% block user_info %}
        {{ user.email }}
        {{ user.first_name }}
        {{ user.last_name }}
    {% endblock user_info %}
</div>
<form method="post">
    <div hx-trigger='load'
        {% hx_get 'user_info_form' object=request.user %}>
    </div>
    <button type="submit"
            hx-target="#user_info"
            {% hx_post 'user_info_form' object=request.user %}>
            Submit
    </button>
</form>

And the HXRequest:

from hx_requests.hx_requests import FormHXRequest

class UserInfoHXRequest(FormHXRequest):
    ...
    # Instead of this (which was the include)
    POST_template = 'user_info.html'

    # We can do this
    POST_template = 'user_info_page.html'
    POST_block = 'user_info'

Another Example

HXRequest

class UpdateUser(FormHXRequest):
    name = "update_user"
    form_class = UpdateUserForm # Form with a username field
    GET_template = "user_form.html"
    POST_template = "big_template.html"
    POST_block = "table" # This is the block that will be rendered on POST

big_template.html

{% load hx_tags %}
....

{% block table %}
    <table>
        <th>Username</th>
        <tr>
            <td>{{ request.user.username }}</td>
            <td >
                <button{% hx_get 'update_user' object=request.user %}
                hx-target="closest tr">Edit user</button>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
{% endblock table %}

...

user_form.html

{% load hx_tags %}
<td colspan="2">
    <form method="post">
        {{ form.username }}
        <button {% hx_post 'update_user' object=hx_object %}
                hx-target="closest table">Save</button>
    </form>
</td>

Notes:

This is a FormHXRequest that replaces a row of the table with a form to edit the contents of the row (i.e. username)

On post the HXRequest will return just the table because the POST_block was set to table and in big_template.html that block contains the table. This is helpful because the only thing on the page that should be updated on post is the table.

If not for django-render-block the table would have to be a separate include so that you could specifiy the table template as the POST_template