Hi, Here is a feature request : as a developer, I'd like to know the current URL name, app name or namespace (or any information gathered during URL resolution) within views, templates... i.e. attached to a request object.
Some use cases: * display some content only if inside an application * set a menu item as active if url_name of current request matches url_name of menu link * enable a context_processor if only within some application (performance tuning). As far as I know, this feature isn't available currently. We do have request.path_info. Is it enough? It works, sometimes. But that's not a rule. As an example, when URL are localized, request.path_info changes. Request.path_info is not a reference a developer should rely on. Whereas named URL patterns seems suitable (and even, made for that purpose). Looking at the code, I'm supposing such a feature could be implemented quite easily: * During URL resolution, resolvers return a ResolveMatch object (see https://github.com/django/django/blob/e72e22e518a730cd28cd68c9374fa79a45e27a9c/django/core/urlresolvers.py#L222or https://github.com/django/django/blob/e72e22e518a730cd28cd68c9374fa79a45e27a9c/django/core/urlresolvers.py#L331) * ResolveMatch instances have attributes such as app_name, url_name... That's what I'm looking for. See https://github.com/django/django/blob/e72e22e518a730cd28cd68c9374fa79a45e27a9c/django/core/urlresolvers.py#L39 * HTTP handlers are the ones which manage both the URL resolution and the request object. They could assign url_name or app_name to request. See https://github.com/django/django/blob/e72e22e518a730cd28cd68c9374fa79a45e27a9c/django/core/handlers/base.py#L104 I mean, in https://github.com/django/django/blob/e72e22e518a730cd28cd68c9374fa79a45e27a9c/django/core/handlers/base.py#L104, we have: callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs = > resolver.resolve(request.path_info) > But if we had something like: request.resolver_match = resolver.resolve(request.path_info) > callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs = request.resolver_match > Then, in templates, we could write something like: <a href="{% url foo %}" {% if request.resolver_match.url_name == 'foo' > %}class="active"{% endif %}>Foo</a> > May I create a ticket for this feature request? Benoit -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/FHIq4ryF5uAJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
