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Improved the templated decorator in the documentation as recommended …
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…by Thadeus Burgess on the mailinglist
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mitsuhiko committed Aug 13, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ As you can see, if no template name is provided it will use the endpoint
of the URL map with dots converted to slashes + ``'.html'``. Otherwise
the provided template name is used. When the decorated function returns,
the dictionary returned is passed to the template rendering function. If
`None` is returned, an empty dictionary is assumed.
`None` is returned, an empty dictionary is assumed, if something else than
a dictionary is returned we return it from the function unchanged. That
way you can still use the redirect function or return simple strings.

Here the code for that decorator::

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ctx = f(*args, **kwargs)
if ctx is None:
ctx = {}
elif not isinstance(ctx, dict):
return ctx
return render_template(template_name, **ctx)
return decorated_function
return decorator

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