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Reputation: 83517

Reverse Django admin URLs

As described this answer, we can use the url tag to reverse Django admin URLs. However, in the examples shown there, you need the app name and model name in the string passed to url. Is there a way to pass those in as parameters instead? What I'm looking to do is something like this:

{% url 'something here' app_name model_name object_id %}

What do I put for 'something here'?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8270

Answers (2)

ahmadabdulnasir
ahmadabdulnasir

Reputation: 417

If you want to reverse admin urls, the default admin.sites.urls has a urlpattern in it that looks like:

urlpatterns = [
        path('', wrap(self.index), name='index'),
        path('login/', self.login, name='login'),
        path('logout/', wrap(self.logout), name='logout'),
        path('password_change/', wrap(self.password_change, cacheable=True), name='password_change'),
        path(
            'password_change/done/',
            wrap(self.password_change_done, cacheable=True),
            name='password_change_done',
        ),
        path('jsi18n/', wrap(self.i18n_javascript, cacheable=True), name='jsi18n'),
        path(
            'r/<int:content_type_id>/<path:object_id>/',
            wrap(contenttype_views.shortcut),
            name='view_on_site',
        ),
    ]

Looking at the above code you can simply use {% url 'admin:index' %} in templete of reverse('admin:index') else where for the admin dashboard url. Likewise same with all other admin urls patterns

Upvotes: 4

rabbit.aaron
rabbit.aaron

Reputation: 2579

I suggest using django_extensions to use its show_urls command to find url names.

simply do

pip install django_extensions

then add django_extensions to your INSTALLED_APPS

#settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    #...
    'django_extensions',
]

Then you can run

python manage.py show_urls

You can use it with grep to filter out the relevant URLs you need. e.g.

python manage.py show_urls | grep password
/admin/auth/user/<id>/password/  django.contrib.auth.admin.user_change_password  admin:auth_user_password_change
/admin/password_change/  django.contrib.admin.sites.password_change      admin:password_change
/admin/password_change/done/     django.contrib.admin.sites.password_change_done admin:password_change_done

And say we want to use django.contrib.auth.admin.user_change_password in our template:

We can do:

{% url "admin:auth_user_password_change" user.pk %}

P.S. You don't really need django_extensions for your production environment, so you probably want to install it locally for development use only.

Resources:

django_extensions installation documentation django_extensions commands

Upvotes: 23

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