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Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman

Reputation: 73235

Why isn't Django using the prefix from my root URLconf when reversing URLs?

Suppose I have a Django project that looks like this:

- project
   - urls.py
   - items
      - urls.py
      - views.py

The root URLconf looks like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^(?:items/)?$', include('items.urls')),
)

The URLconf for items looks like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('items.views',
    url(r'^(?P<item_id>\d+)/$', 'view'),
)

views.py contains a method:

def view(request, item_id):
    item = get_object_or_404(Item, pk=item_id)
    return render(request, 'item/view.html', {'item': item})

I'm trying to use django.core.urlresolvers.reverse in Django's interactive shell but it isn't working:

>>> reverse('items.views.view', kwargs={'item_id': 12})
'/12/'

The problem is that the reversed URL is missing the items/ prefix from the root URLconf. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 498

Answers (1)

Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman

Reputation: 73235

So it turns out I was doing something dumb:


url(r'^(?:items/)?$', include('items.urls')),

Because the 'items' is optional, the reverse method just ignores it and outputs '/'.

Upvotes: 1

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