On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 04:15 +0000, Nicolas E. Lara G. wrote:
> Other than using uncommon names for the url one could just use the
> most obvious name and let the url tag have a disambiguation function
> so if the name is: "name" you could write both:
> {% url 'name' %} and {% url 'myapp.name' %} (or "myapp/name" or
> "myapp-name")
The problem is predicting what we be called if you use the unprefixed
argument. It's going be non-deterministic from an application's point of
view, so they will *always* have to use a name that is unlikely to
collide. Remember that templates have no point of reference -- they
don't know that they were called from a particular app, so they'll
always be scanning the URL configuration from the top level.
> With this you could keep the url management simple for most cases and
> allow users to differentiate colliding names (it would be terrible
> that if a name is taken by, lets say, comments or another contrib app
> users had problems for setting up url names)
Which is the argument for using uncommon names for your urls. The exact
same problem exists for application names. You can't create an app
called django and expect it to work. Fortunately, django is one of many
uncommon names you can use for an app, so it's easy to pick
non-colliding names. If you choose "comments" for you redistributable
app and somebody else does, too, you're both screwed. Name collision
potential exists all the time (try writing an executable called "ls" and
seeing how wide a distribution you get) and society hasn't ground to a
halt just for asking people to be a little creative.
Regards,
Malcolm
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