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pythondjangodjango-urls
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Serenity

Reputation: 4054

one url for views with id and not with id

Is there a way to use only one url for the views to display the content with id(token) and without id(token). For example there is a view which displays the list of profile of user if token is not provided otherwise show a specific user with the token that is passed.

Here is a view 

def get(self, request, token=None, format=None):
      """
      Returns a list of profile of user or single user if token is provided
      """
      reply={}
      try:
          profile_instance = Profile.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
          if token:
              profile = profile_instance.get(token=token)
              reply['data'] = self.serializer_class(profile).data
          else:
              reply['data'] = self.serializer_class(profile_instance, many=True).data
      except:
          reply['data']=[]
      return Response(reply, status.HTTP_200_OK)

The url wil be something like this 

url(
      r'^users/$',
      views.UserList.as_view(),
      name="user_list"
  ),
url(
   r'^users/(?P<token>[0-9a-z]+)$',
   views.UserList.as_view(),
   name="user_profile"
),

Is there a way to have only one url?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (1)

nik_m
nik_m

Reputation: 12086

Sure, there is a way. Just make the token url parameter optional. Like this:

url(r'^users/(?P<token>[0-9a-z]+)?$', views.UserList.as_view(), name='user_profile'),

Notice the trailing ?, which means 0 or 1 matches of the token. If the token is provided then it'll be the value provided (obviously!). If not, it will be None.

Upvotes: 1

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