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Brenden
Brenden

Reputation: 8774

Use entire set of views in two different URL confs in Django

I'm building a web app that displays TV Shows and Episodes. All my urls are geared towards TV Shows being the top level concept:

I've gotten interest from Networks for consolidated pages with their shows as subdirectories

I'll need to support both, and obviously I dont want to repeat all my non-network URL confs. Is there a simple way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (3)

JSRB
JSRB

Reputation: 2623

How about something like this:

urlpatterns = [
    path('<tv-show-name>', render_your_view, name='tv-show'),
    path('<network-name>/<tv-show-name>', render_your_view, name='network'),
]

So no matter if the requested URL is on a tv-show level or network-level, it triggers the according view(s).

Upvotes: 0

Iain Shelvington
Iain Shelvington

Reputation: 32304

You can include the same url patterns more than once. In your case, you can include them with and without the network name prefix

from django.urls import path, include

episode_patterns = [
    path('<str:tv_show_name>/<str:episode_name>/', episode_detail),
    path('<str:tv_show_name>/<str:episode_name>/cast/', episode_cast),
    path('<str:tv_show_name>/<str:episode_name>/reviews/', episode_reviews),
]

urlpatterns = [
    path('<str:network_name>/', include(episode_patterns)),
    path('', include(episode_patterns)),
]

You may want to think about including "prefixes" in your paths so that they are more explicit. As it stands it could be fairly confusing as to which url is being matched

from django.urls import path, include

episode_patterns = [
    path('show/<str:tv_show_name>/episode/<str:episode_name>/', episode_detail),
    path('show/<str:tv_show_name>/episode/<str:episode_name>/cast/', episode_cast),
    path('show/<str:tv_show_name>/episode/<str:episode_name>/reviews/', episode_reviews),
]

urlpatterns = [
    path('network/<str:network_name>/', include(episode_patterns)),
    path('', include(episode_patterns)),
]

This would give you urls like

  • mysite.com/show/tv-show-name/episode/episode-name/
  • mysite.com/network/network-name/show/tv-show-name/episode/episode-name/

Upvotes: 2

Lewis
Lewis

Reputation: 2798

Iterate through your urlpatterns list again after definition.

Then str.replace() for the url and append to the existing list?

For keyword name=<your_url_name> in url to remain unique, Add a prefix to separate network from tv.

Upvotes: 0

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