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authorRamiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com>2011-01-25 15:42:24 +0000
committerRamiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com>2011-01-25 15:42:24 +0000
commitf81d4ba5b3deceeacbe51923f379acb7d033665f (patch)
treecf3c4942cd81549fcd9112c3c07f87db7469430d /docs/ref
parent5d2ea792ecc271f08201e59268a26ff163f91634 (diff)
Fixed #14038 -- Added information to release notes and version changed|added markers to documentation additions for the new template loeaders API introduced in version 1.2. Thanks 3point2 for the report.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15309 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/settings.txt6
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/templates/api.txt9
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 87a71fe6ed..5140d3519d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -1743,6 +1743,12 @@ used instead of a string. The first item in the tuple should be the ``Loader``'s
module, subsequent items are passed to the ``Loader`` during initialization. See
:doc:`/ref/templates/api`.
+.. versionchanged:: 1.2
+ The class-based API for template loaders was introduced in Django 1.2
+ although the ``TEMPLATE_LOADERS`` setting will accept strings that specify
+ function-based loaders until compatibility with them is completely removed in
+ Django 1.4.
+
.. setting:: TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/api.txt b/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
index 0110a63ab6..71fcbd9f56 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/api.txt
@@ -630,8 +630,13 @@ sources.
Some of these other loaders are disabled by default, but you can activate them
by editing your :setting:`TEMPLATE_LOADERS` setting. :setting:`TEMPLATE_LOADERS`
-should be a tuple of strings, where each string represents a template loader.
-Here are the template loaders that come with Django:
+should be a tuple of strings, where each string represents a template loader
+class. Here are the template loaders that come with Django:
+
+.. versionchanged:: 1.2
+ Template loaders were based on callables (usually functions) before Django
+ 1.2, starting with the 1.2 release there is a new class-based API, all the
+ loaders described below implement this new API.
``django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader``
Loads templates from the filesystem, according to :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS`.