Fix #1227

ralsina · ralsina · commit 185f09b15c54 · 2016-08-19T12:10:18.000-03:00
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ New in master
 Features
 --------
 
+* Shortcode to escape to the template language (Issue #1227)
 * Added link to raw file in listings (Issue #1995)
 * New NO_DOCUTILS_TITLE_TRANSFORM (Issue #2382)
 * Update options of chart directive to Pygal 2.2.3
diff --git a/docs/manual.txt b/docs/manual.txt
@@ -928,6 +928,19 @@ Then the output file will contain::
 
     This uses the bar variable: bla
 
+Finally, you can use a template shortcode without a file, by inserting the template in the shortcode itself::
+
+    {{% raw %}}
+    {{% template %}}
+    % for foo in bar:
+        <li> ${foo}
+    % endfor
+    {{% /template %}}
+    {{% /raw %}}
+
+In that case, the template engine used will be your theme's and the arguments you pass, as well as the global
+context from your ``conf.py``, are available to the template you are creating.
+
 Redirections
 ------------
 
diff --git a/nikola/nikola.py b/nikola/nikola.py
@@ -1452,7 +1452,14 @@ def render_shortcode(*args, **kw):
         return render_shortcode
 
     def _register_templated_shortcodes(self):
-        """Register shortcodes provided by templates in shortcodes/ folders."""
+        """Register shortcodes based on templates.
+
+        This will register a shortcode for any template found in shortcode/
+        and a generic "template" shortcode which will consider the content
+        in the shortcode as a template in itself."""
+
+        self.register_shortcode('template', self._template_shortcode_handler)
+
         builtin_sc_dir = resource_filename(
             'nikola',
             os.path.join('data', 'shortcodes', utils.get_template_engine(self.THEMES)))
@@ -1470,6 +1477,20 @@ def _register_templated_shortcodes(self):
                     self.register_shortcode(name, self._make_renderfunc(
                         fd.read(), os.path.join(sc_dir, fname)))
 
+    def _template_shortcode_handler(self, *args, **kw):
+        t_data = kw.pop('data', '')
+        context = self.GLOBAL_CONTEXT.copy()
+        context.update(kw)
+        context['_args'] = args
+        context['lang'] = utils.LocaleBorg().current_lang
+        for k in self._GLOBAL_CONTEXT_TRANSLATABLE:
+            context[k] = context[k](context['lang'])
+        output = self.template_system.render_template_to_string(t_data, context)
+        # XXX FIXME: we have no standard way to get dependency information from
+        # a template that's not a file
+        dependencies = []
+        return output, dependencies
+
     def register_shortcode(self, name, f):
         """Register function f to handle shortcode "name"."""
         if name in self.shortcode_registry:
