#17508: DateDetailView should accept less specific dates, ie Year/Month or just
Year
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Reporter: AndrewIngram | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Generic views | Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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DateDetailView currently expects segments for year, month and day in the
URL. This introduces the requirement to have an archive page for each
level of the date; ie a year archive, a month archive, and a day archive:
/2012/
/2012/jan/
/2012/jan/06/
/2012/jan/06/blog-entry-name/
I don't think I'm inaccurate in saying that most bloggers (as opposed to
news sites) don't usually create more than one post a day, and many
(myself included) have a frequency of much less than once per month. This
means we're introducing views such as day archive that have exactly the
same information as the higher levels. As a URL purist, I don't like
unnecessary segments in my schema and unnecessary pages in my information
architecture.
In my case my URL structure is as follows, I don't use DayArchive at all:
/2012/
/2012/jan/
/2012/jan/blog-entry-name/
I've achieved this by creating my own version of DateDetailView that
removes the use of DayMixin, but I think this can also be achieved by
modifying DateDetailView itself to allow looser date matching using
configuration of the view itself.
Is this a common enough use case to be worth making the change in Django
itself? I think it can be done without affecting backwards compatibility.
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