[Django] #36307: Support passing depth to naturaltime, timesince and timeuntil filters

#36307: Support passing depth to naturaltime, timesince and timeuntil filters
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Reporter: Giannis | Owner: Giannis Terzopoulos
Terzopoulos |
Type: New | Status: assigned
feature |
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Severity: Normal | Keywords:
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I propose extending these filters to accept an optional `depth` argument
that gets passed downstream:

- `timesince` would pass depth to `django.utils.timesince.timesince()`
- `timeuntil` would pass depth to `django.utils.timesince.timeuntil()`
- `naturaltime` would pass depth to `NaturalTimeFormatter.string_for()`,
which would then pass it to the underlying `timesince`/`timeuntil` calls

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''Example'':
For a datetime object `dt` representing 38 days in the past:

`{{ dt|naturaltime:"1" }}` would return "1 month ago", instead of the
current depth=2 output: "1 month, 1 week ago"
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Reporter: Giannis Terzopoulos | Owner: Giannis
| Terzopoulos
Type: New feature | Status: assigned
Component: Template system | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Changes (by Sarah Boyce):

* component: Uncategorized => Template system
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
* version: => dev

Comment:

Since the depth parameter was added to timesince and timeuntil within
#31623, I believe this is a logical follow up
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Comment (by blighj):

This is less simple than it appears at first.
The timesince and timeuntil filters can already take an optional argument,
a variable containing the date to use as the comparison point. Since
filters can only take one optional argument there is no room for depth.
I've thought about overloading it, but I've concluded it's a bad thing to
do.

If people need this functionality in their projects, I think it is okay
that they can create their own simple_tag for the job.

The naturaltime filter does not have any arguments, you could add it
there, but the justification Sarah used about timesince and timeuntil
functions being updated is a little more of a stretch if it is only this
filter from humanize that is being updated.

I'd suggest this should be changed to wontfix.
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