[Answered ]-Access request in django custom template tags, using the tag decorator

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Answer to the 2 sub-questions:

Is there a reason why the tag decorator does accept the takes_context argument ?

It’s because, as you said, tag is run at a lower level, parser-level of the template. There is no context at that point.

How can I access the template context with this decorator (and thus the request object) ?

I don’t think you can. Again, because it’s a parser-level thing. An interesting example is the block tag. In order to be able to override block tags, it uses the extend tag to pass on some info.

I’m struggling with similar situation. The only thing I can think of is making middleware for process_request that resets some global/singleton context which I access in tags. However this wont help if a template is rendered outside a request, like in a command.

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@register.tag takes only two arguments: the name and the compilation function. I think you can try to pass request through the token argument in the compilation function.

UPD:
You can also access it in the Node render method

class TestTagNode(template.Node):
    def render(self, context):
        return context['request'].user

@register.tag
def test_tag(parser, token):
    return TestTagNode()
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