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Feature request: do not require storing of rendered text
I do see the performance advantage of storing rendered Markdown, but also wonder why there is no documented means for avoiding it. It seems a perfectly valid and common use case to me, to store only the markdown and render on, well, rendering the template. That is rather than:
from django.db import models
from markdownfield.models import MarkdownField, RenderedMarkdownField
from markdownfield.validators import VALIDATOR_STANDARD
class Page(models.Model):
text = MarkdownField(rendered_field='text_rendered', validator=VALIDATOR_STANDARD)
text_rendered = RenderedMarkdownField()
and in templates:
{{ post.text_rendered | safe }}
something more like:
from django.db import models
from markdownfield.models import MarkdownField
from markdownfield.validators import VALIDATOR_STANDARD
class Page(models.Model):
text = MarkdownField(validator=VALIDATOR_STANDARD)
and in templates:
{{ post.text | render_markdown }}
Not only is that use case to my mind very valid, I think that the render_markdown filter would find broader use in templates.