How to pass parameter to js function from template parameter array

Question

I generated in tornado template table with cities and I am trying to have like last column details button

{% if globals().has_key('results')  %}
   {% for result in results %}
     <tr>
         <td>{{result['name']}}</td>
         <td>{{result['citizens']}}</td>
         <td style="width:100px; height:100px;">
          <div class="ui-grid-b">
          <a class="ui-block-a ui-icon-detail" onclick="showDetails('{{id}}',{{result['city_id']}});" data-role="ui-li-aside" data-icon="right_arrow" data-theme="a"></a>
          </div>
         </td>
     </tr>
    {% end %}
{% end %}

and on click to load on another page with parameters in url.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function showDetails(id, city_id)
       {
          window.location = '/cities?id='+id+'&city_id='+city_id;
        }
</script>

How to pass parameters to show details function ? (I cannot use ', I tried with \\" but it doesn't work). Results is list of dictionaries with keys name, citizens, city_id. {{ }} is used by tornado template to access passed parameter.

Answer 1

   showDetails = function (id, city_id)
       {
          window.location = '/cities?id='+id+'&city_id='+city_id;
        }

I think is the easy way

Answer 2

The variable inside the braces will be output directly (or, the string representation of it), so it depends what it is set to.

eg if you have:

id = 'foo'
results = [{ 'city_id': 'bar' }]

and you are passing them to the template, then this line:

showDetails('{{id}}',{{result['city_id']}});

will be output as follows (you can confirm this with view source):

showDetails('foo',bar);

I'm guessing you're missing the quotes around {{result['city_id']}} , unless result['city_id'] is an integer, in which case it should work. Single or double quotes are both fine in JavaScript.

However, as @Pete already pointed out, "on click to load on another page with parameters in url" is what we have the href attribute for. You can save yourself a lot of work and potential brokenness with:

<a href="/cities?id={{ id }}&city_id={{ result['city_id'] }}" ....></a>