Render Template Rust Rocket Handlebars

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Render Template Rust Rocket Handlebars

1k Views Asked by John Hill At 25 April 2025 at 12:45

I am trying to render a template with rust rocket and handlebars, this works fine but I can't get any arguments to the html file to work, the page loads, but the argument is not there. I am familiar with flask and jinja for python but not as much with rocket and handlebars. I have tried countless things but I can't find any documentation that works.

main.rs

#![feature(decl_macro)]

extern crate rocket;
extern crate rocket_contrib;

use rocket::{get, routes};
use rocket_contrib::templates::Template;


#[get("/one")]
fn one() -> String {
    format!("One")
}


#[get("/page")]
fn page() -> Template {
    let context = "string";
    Template::render("page", &context)
}


fn main() {
    rocket::ignite()
        .mount("/", routes![one])
        .attach(Template::fairing())
        .launch();
}

page.html.hbs

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head></head>

<html>
    <body>
        <h1>Argument is: {{context}}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

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**cdhowie** · Accepted Answer

The template system doesn't know that the local variable is called context. It just knows that your context is a string, which doesn't have an attribute called context. You need to provide a type implementing Serialize, with a member called context for the template expression {{context}} to expand to anything. You could do this with a HashMap or a custom type.

With a HashMap:

#[get("/page")]
fn page() -> Template {
    let mut context = HashMap::new();
    context.insert("context", "string");
    Template::render("page", &context)
}

With a custom type:

#[get("/page")]
fn page() -> Template {
    #[derive(serde_derive::Serialize)]
    struct PageContext {
        pub context: String,
    }

    let context = PageContext { context: "string" };
    Template::render("page", &context)
}

Custom types will generally perform better, and are self-documenting.

Render Template Rust Rocket Handlebars

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