On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:19:39PM -0600, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
> "correct" and just as simple, and each time I've failed. As far as
> I'm concerned, if someone can come up with a way to do this that's
> stupidly simple then I'm all for a change, but at the same time
> get_absolute_url() is a wart I'm willing to live with.
Just thinking aloud...
In the model you want to know "what is this object's identifier that
we would use in a url". That might be just an object ID, a slug,
or maybe yyyy/mm/dd/id or who knows what. This would be formated
such that it could be used as-is as PART of a URL. Let's call this method
"get_id_for_url()" (or whatever you end up calling it) That seems to be
the appropriate type of data to come from a Model.. i.e. not the entire
absolute URL, but just a portion of the URL that would be used to
identify this Model's object.
Then, in the particular view (not clear, it might be and/or in the
template) you would want to combine some base URL string with the
previous get_id_for_url string to make it into a real url. To do that
might need just a variable "base_url" (or it could be yet another view
specific method) that changes by the view.
So in a template you'd have to do
{{ base_url }}{{ this-object.get_id_for_url }}
In your urls.py and/or view you'd setup a dict to pass the appropriate
value to the template e.g.
info_dict = {
'app_label': 'myapp',
'module_name': 'mymods',
'base_url': 'mymods',
}
That would allow me to use the generic views if I sent the 'base_url' correctly,
or you could even have it default to the 'module_name'. Or I could code
it into my view's code however I wish.
?????
--
Glenn
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