html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-581758728,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,581758728,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU4MTc1ODcyOA==,9599,simonw,2020-02-04T06:11:53Z,2020-02-04T06:11:53Z,OWNER,"For the moment I'm going to move it to `async def render_template()` on `datasette` but otherwise keep the implementation the same.

The new signature will be:

    async def render_template(self, template, context=None, request=None, view_name=None):

`template` can be a list of strings or a single string. If a list of strings a template will be selected from them.

I'll reconsider the large list of default context variables later on in a separate ticket.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-568276310,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,568276310,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU2ODI3NjMxMA==,9599,simonw,2019-12-22T16:10:31Z,2019-12-22T16:10:31Z,OWNER,"The code in question currently lives in `BaseView.render()`:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/d54318fc7f2565e6121920ce1ea9cb8b700e629a/datasette/views/base.py#L106-L163

Should `datasette.render_template()` do exactly this, or should it be slightly different?

Plugins need the option to not pass a `request` object - so maybe that parameter becomes optional.

Perhaps plugins should be able to render templates without other plugins getting to inject their own variables?

Does it always make sense to dump in all of those extra template context variables?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-564214355,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,564214355,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU2NDIxNDM1NQ==,9599,simonw,2019-12-10T19:47:17Z,2019-12-10T19:47:17Z,OWNER,"The reason I've been dragging my heels on adding template rendering to the Datasette class is that it feels messy - should that class be responsible for both data access AND template rendering?

I think I can come to terms with this thanks to plugins. The Datasette class can represent the family of features that plugins affect - which means that having it expose the template rendering API is reasonable.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-563449488,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,563449488,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU2MzQ0OTQ4OA==,9599,simonw,2019-12-09T21:32:47Z,2019-12-09T21:32:47Z,OWNER,"I'm going to go with `Datasette(...).render_template(...)` - I need that for #648, and it makes sense to me that the `Datasette` class is the documented interface that plugins interact with.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-559610951,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,559610951,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU1OTYxMDk1MQ==,9599,simonw,2019-11-28T22:10:36Z,2019-11-28T22:10:49Z,OWNER,"Better idea: take advantage of pluggy dependency injection. If a plugin takes a `render` argument we can send it a function that can be used to render a template.

The need to `await render(...)` might be difficult here though.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-549160499,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,549160499,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDU0OTE2MDQ5OQ==,9599,simonw,2019-11-03T17:36:59Z,2019-11-03T17:36:59Z,OWNER,"I think a `.render_template()` method on the `Datasette` class would be acceptable, since the purpose of that class will mainly be to provide a documented API for plugins to use: #576 ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/577#issuecomment-538173983,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/577,538173983,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUzODE3Mzk4Mw==,9599,simonw,2019-10-04T00:01:18Z,2019-10-04T00:01:18Z,OWNER,Here's the horrific (stack inspecting) workaround I came up with for a prototype of `datasette-atom`: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-atom/commit/c0e3bd9556d7b31f253a8bf666d42205cd24f4fc#diff-acba9942430bc5e616410567296f92ffR87,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",497171390,Utility mechanism for plugins to render templates,