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Nicholas Jordan
Nicholas Jordan

Reputation: 3

How to get variable from django url

I'm new to Django and would like to know how to get a variable from a url. I have tried this:

url(r'^(?P<name>)/$', employeedetail, name='employeedetail'),

which goes to this view

def employeedetail(request, name):
    return render(request, 'employee/detail.html')

but I get an error: employeedetail() missing 1 required positional argument: 'name'

Is the code wrong or do I need to type in the url in a particular way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 476

Answers (2)

NIKHIL RANE
NIKHIL RANE

Reputation: 4092

Try to use following solution

in your urls.py

For a string parameter in url use following syntax 

url(r'^(?P<name>[\w\-]+)/$',employeedetail, name='employeedetail')

This will even allow the strings to pass in your url.

And access name parameter in your view

def employeedetail(request, name):
    print name
    return render(request, 'employee/detail.html')

Hope this will help you

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599590

Your regex is wrong; you haven't provided any characters to match. It should be something like:

 r'^(?P<name>\w+)/$

which matches all alphanumeric characters.

Upvotes: 3

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