Filter¶

A filter is a simple class that takes a text input, transforms it and returns the transformed text. New filters must abstract a base class MarkupFilter. Let’s make an example that reads a text and converts it to uppercase:

from django_markup.filter import MarkupFilter

class UppercaseMarkupFilter(MarkupFilter):
    title = 'Uppercase text'
    def render(self, text, **kwargs):
        return text.upper()

A filter must contain a render method that takes a variable text as it’s first argument which holds the text to transform. Also it must accept a **kwargs argument which is used for Overriding filter settings. At the end, the render method returns the modified text.

Additionally the filter class should contain an attribute title which holds a better human readable name for this filter.

Please have a look on the sourcecode of the bundled filters for better examples.

Adding filters to a formatter¶

See MarkupFormatter how to attach a filter to a formatter class.

A list of all bundled filters:¶