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jayt
jayt

Reputation: 768

Django: get_absolute_url not working

In Django, I want to display a detailed view of model objects by using the get_absolute_url method as described here.

The URL structure for each detail is something like this...

url.com/company/(?P< company_id >[0-9]+)/people/(?P< slug >[0-9]+)/$

where .../people/ is the list view and the .../people/slug/ is the detail for each object

Which returns the NoReverseMatch error like so

NoReverseMatch at /company/google/people/

as I put the href='{{ people.get_absolute_url }}' in my template.

Does anybody know if using the 'company_id' kwarg in the URL is causing problems rendering the page with the get_absolute_url href for the 'slug' kwarg?

I've done this many times before with a hardcoded URL before the kwarg variable which worked; such as 'company/people/(?P< slug >[0-9]+)/$' - note there's only one keyword

Full Error:

Reverse for 'people-detail' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{u'slug': u'798224891221678'}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['company/(?P< company_id >[0-9]+)/people/(?P< slug >[0-9]+)/$']

get_absolute_url method:

def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse('people-detail', kwargs={'slug': self.slug})

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3595

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 309089

If your url pattern people-detail contains a named group company_id, then you must include that when you try to reverse it. For example, if your model has a foreign key to the Company model, then you might be able to do:

def get_absolute_url(self):
    return reverse('people-detail', kwargs={'slug': self.slug, 'company_id': self.company_id})

Upvotes: 4

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