Block Assignment Filters

[eli-collins]

2.8's block assignments have been incredibly useful, but I've found myself doing the following a lot...

{% set title %}
    <h1>{{ value }}</h1>
{% endset %}
{% set title = title | safe %}

Would it be possible to allow moving the filter call into the block assignment call, such as with the following syntax?

{% set title | safe %}
    <h1>{{ value }}</h1>
{% endset %}

(There might be a better / more generally flexible syntax, that's just the one that first occurred to me to try).

[ThiefMaster]

👍

You could use {% filter safe %}...{% endfilter %} inside the set block though. But of course it's not as pretty.

[ThiefMaster]

Actually, the fact that you need to filter your set block as safe feels more like a bug to me since it results in double-escaped data very easily (which is something Jinja is usually pretty good at avoiding!).

Opened another issue about this: #490

[eli-collins]

#490 alone would definitely solve all my use-cases; if that was pushed through, I'd be happy whichever way you end up deciding this issue. Without the frequent need to use a 'safe' filter, the block filter syntax is probably more than sufficient for the remaining edge cases that I can think of.