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Reputation: 1297

Use url args in views, is it possible?

I'd like to use url arguments in views (not templates, I know how to do that).

So is it possible to use them like:

def item_link(self, item):
    return mainpage_url_name + "%s/%i" % (item.slug, item.cid)

mainpage_url_name - is of course defined in url patterns (as name variable)

I'm a total newb in Django...

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 322

Answers (1)

arie
arie

Reputation: 18972

First you should use names for your url patterns as documented here.

Then you can use reverse() to use these names in your views or methods.

Following your comments you are using the syndication framework.

Therefore you should make sure that you define get_absolute_url() for you models, ideally using the permalink decorator (for a clean reversing of your urls).

Looking at the example from Django's docs that should be all that's necessary.

To specify the contents of <link>, you have two options. For each item in items(), Django first tries calling the item_link() method on the Feed class. In a similar way to the title and description, it is passed it a single parameter, item. If that method doesn't exist, Django tries executing a get_absolute_url() method on that object.

Upvotes: 4

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