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Custom HTML #11

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noelmathewisaac opened this issue Jun 23, 2021 · 6 comments
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Custom HTML #11

noelmathewisaac opened this issue Jun 23, 2021 · 6 comments

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@noelmathewisaac
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noelmathewisaac commented Jun 23, 2021 •
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Is it possible to pass in custom HTML as a parameter instead of pointing to a URL?
I want to generate a pdf from HTML templates (using Jinja/Nunjucks)
@lampnick
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Is it possible to pass in custom HTML as a parameter instead of pointing to a URL?
I want to generate a pdf from HTML templates (using Jinja/Nunjucks)

Do you want to use local file path?

@noelmathewisaac
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Not local path. Instead of passing in URL, I wanted to pass in plain HTML directly?

@lampnick
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Not local path. Instead of passing in URL, I wanted to pass in plain HTML directly?

Could you give me an example?

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noelmathewisaac commented Jul 1, 2021 •
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My use case is as follows:

Let's say I have an HTML template called sample.html

<html>
   <div class="container">
      <h1 class="title">
         {{ title  }}
      </h1>
      <h2 class="subtitle">
         {{ subtitle }}
      </h2>
   </div>
</html>

I want to use a templating engine like Jinja to pass in data to the template and generate the HTML
(render_template('sample.html', title = "Foo", subtitle="bar")) to get

<html>
   <div class="container">
      <h1 class="title">
         Foo
      </h1>
      <h2 class="subtitle">
         Bar
      </h2>
   </div>
</html>

Using this generated HTML, I want to create an image or pdf.

Is there a way to do this using Docton?

@lampnick
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lampnick commented Jul 2, 2021

My use case is as follows:

Let's say I have an HTML template called sample.html

<html>
   <div class="container">
      <h1 class="title">
         {{ title  }}
      </h1>
      <h2 class="subtitle">
         {{ subtitle }}
      </h2>
   </div>
</html>

I want to use a templating engine like Jinja to pass in data to the template and generate the HTML
(render_template('sample.html', title = "Foo", subtitle="bar")) to get

<html>
   <div class="container">
      <h1 class="title">
         Foo
      </h1>
      <h2 class="subtitle">
         Bar
      </h2>
   </div>
</html>

Using this generated HTML, I want to create an image or pdf.

Is there a way to do this using Docton?

You may upload your generated html to your http server where the uri can reach by Doctron.

@noelmathewisaac
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Doing this is tricky because Docton needs to fetch the HTML via a GET request. But passing in large amounts of data to an HTML template through a GET request is not easy/recommended.

It would be really useful to have an enhancement to pass in an HTML string directly. But thanks for your help!

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