CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
sayth
sayth

Reputation: 7028

Get different views to display different content

I am following this guide here tango with django and I am reading/copying as best from here tutorial part 3

But I cannot get different views to display different content. I am missing the explanation somewhere/somehow.

so this is my project urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
# from django.contrib import admin
# admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'Sayth.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^Sayth/', include('Sayth.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    # url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^rango/', include('rango.urls')),
    url(r'^rango/about/', include('rango.urls')),
)

This is my application urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from rango import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
            url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
            url(r'^$', views.about, name='about'),
            )

These are my views

# Create your views here.
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Rango says Hello World! <a href='/rango/about'>About</a>" )

def about(request):
    return HttpResponse("This is the about page. <a href='/rango/'>Index</a>")

Both my pages resolve but both show the index page, why?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 412

Answers (3)

leifos
leifos

Reputation: 253

As the first answer have mentioned, your project's urls.py only needs one pointer to the application urls.py.

Conceptually it is like this, anything matching '^rango/' should be passed onto the application urls.py, and then the applications handles the rest of the url.. either '/' or 'about/'

So in your applications urls.py, you then need to ensure that a mapping for each of these patterns exists.

In the tangowithdjango book, the about page is an exercise, left for the reader, but if you have future problems you can always inspect the code for the application, for example:

The project urls.py:

https://github.com/leifos/tango_with_django/blob/master/tango_with_django_project/tango_with_django_project/urls.py

The application urls.py:

https://github.com/leifos/tango_with_django/blob/master/tango_with_django_project/rango/urls.py

Upvotes: 1

user1437647
user1437647

Reputation:

If you do not wish to create an urls.py on the app you can just do the url mapping like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # ...
    # most detailed urls comes first.
    url(r'^rango/about/?$', 'rango.views.about', name='about'),
    url(r'^rango/?$', 'rango.views.index', name='index'),

)

Upvotes: 0

Sunny Nanda
Sunny Nanda

Reputation: 2382

The urls defined are not correct. The root urls.py should have only a pointer to the app, and the app's urls.py should resolve the different endpoints.

Try the following urls.py:

#Project urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'Sayth.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^Sayth/', include('Sayth.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    # url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^rango/', include('rango.urls')),
)


#rango/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from rango import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
            url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
            url(r'^about/$', views.about, name='about'),
            )

Upvotes: 1

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