How to use safe filter on custom Django tag? - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to implement a custom Django tag that will formulate an import statement in Javascript to load my vue3 app as well as its components template html files using a get request in axios.
The custom tag in my templatetags directory looks like this:
templatetags/vuecomponents.py
from django import template
from django.templatetags.static import static
register = template.Library()
#register.simple_tag
def v_load_app_component(app_name, script_name, components):
components = components.strip("[]").split(", ")
app_script = static(f"js/{script_name}.js")
comps = [static(f"components/{name}.html") for name in components]
return f"import {{{ app_name }}} from \"{app_script}?{components[0]}={comps[0]}\""
Right now it only loads the first component as I just want a prototype. The only issue is when I drop this into a template like so:
createpost.html
<script type="module">
{% v_load_app_component "creator" "internalpostform" "[internalpostform]" %}
// OUTPUTS:
// import { creator } from "static/js/internalpostform.js?internalpostform=internalpostform.html"
creator.mount("#app")
</script>
It outputs the relevant import statement as:
import { creator } from "static/js/internalpostform.js?internalpostform=internalpostform.html"
With the double quotes escaped. Even when I tried to apply the safe filter ({% v_load_app_component "creator" "internalpostform" "[internalpostform]"|safe %}) it still escaped the output of my custom tag function.
How can I make it to where the output of my custom tag doesn't automatically have symbols converted to html entities?

Answer 1

I found it after a little digging in Django's documentation. The safe filter is only for variables i.e. {{ variable|safe }} but does not apply to a tag {% tag "argument"|safe %}.
To prevent Django from escaping the output of a tag you simply use {% autoescape off %}
{% autoescape off %}
{% v_load_app_component "creator" "internalpostform" "[internalpostform]" %}
{% endautoescape %}
This results in the desired behavior.