[Answer]-How to pass raw strings or integers into django template filters?

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You are calling the template filter in a wrong way. Please see below:
You can not pass the javascript variable into the template filter, passed the variable from context.

<script>
    var age = "{{ pk|pk_into_age }}";
</script>

Assuming pk variable exists in the context. Or hardcode the pk value as:

var age = "{{ '123'|pk_into_age }}";
👤Aamir Rind

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You cannot use javascript variable in a template filter, because javascript runs on the client side, while templates are generated on the server side.

As far as I know, there is no way, to bypass this problem, without communicating with the server again.

So, to pass a javascript variable to a template filter, you may, for example, use an ajax request. Write additional view, which processes given pk and returns a plain template, without html headers, just with the data you need.

OR… if you don’t need to communicate with user to get “news” object, just retrieve news.age in the view.

👤Marcin Kulus

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