Explain template location in Django

Question

I’m using Django for a project, but I came across a question.

In my file settings.py I have the following configuration of templates:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'tests/templates'),
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'core/templates')
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

And the following method in my file view.py

Django uses the MTV model, so the "view" is equivalent to the controller in the MVC model

def index(request):
    template = loader.get_template('create.html')
    return HttpResponse(template.render())

I have two directories "tests/templates" and "core/templates" when using the method get_template it picks up from any of the directories.

If I create a file called "create.html" in both directories it takes what is inside my "application" where the file "view.py" is found, if I remove the file "create.html" from "tests", automatically it takes what is in the folder "core"".

Django separates the code into "applications", which acts as a species module.

I would like to define which folder (application) my template comes from.

UPDATE

I found in the documentation a way, but found it redundant, to put the same application name inside the template folder, if there is already the separation of the application, why create another separation inside the template? Is there any way to use the application name for this?

Answer 1

According to Django’s documentation:

get_template(template_name , using = None)

This function loads the template with the given name and returns a Template object. The exact type of return value depends on the backend that loaded the template. Each backend has its own Template class . get_template() attempts each model mechanism in order until one is successful. If the model cannot be found, it generates TemplateDoesNotExist . If the template is found but contains an invalid syntax, it will increase the TemplateSyntaxError. The way models are searched and loaded depends on the backend and configuration of each mechanism. If you want to restrict the search to a specific model engine, pass the NAME of the mechanism in the argument using.