Getting closer! Imported into root with
url(r'^news/',include('app.urls')),
Throwing a new error about the path not being fully qualified, but progress.
On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 9:38:22 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I originally put that url pattern into the root conf, but it wasn't
> working there either. Embarrassingly, I'm not sure how to import my app's
> conf or define a new pattern that would point to it.
>
> This is what the root urls.py looks like:
> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>
> from django.conf.urls import include, url
> from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
> from django.contrib import admin
> from django.views.i18n import set_language
>
> from mezzanine.core.views import direct_to_template
> from mezzanine.conf import settings
>
>
> admin.autodiscover()
>
> urlpatterns = i18n_patterns(
> # Change the admin prefix here to use an alternate URL for the
> # admin interface, which would be marginally more secure.
> url("^admin/", include(admin.site.urls)),
> )
>
> if settings.USE_MODELTRANSLATION:
> urlpatterns += [
> url('^i18n/$', set_language, name='set_language'),
> ]
>
> urlpatterns += [
>
> url("^$", direct_to_template, {"template": "index.html"}, name="home"),
>
> # REST API URLs
> url("^api/", include("mezzanine_api.urls")),
>
> url("^", include("mezzanine.urls")),
> ]
>
> handler404 = "mezzanine.core.views.page_not_found"
> handler500 = "mezzanine.core.views.server_error"
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 9:13:26 PM UTC-7, Eduardo Rivas wrote:
>>
>> I see you created a urlconf for your app, but have you added it to your
>> root urls.py? If so, is if above or below Mezzanine's catch-all pattern?
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2017 9:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, thanks for such a great resource! I have googled around for a few
>>> days and have made some headway this problem, but have hit a wall. I'm
>>> trying to use the Displayable model to create an easy way to add news
>>> stories and have them displayed as a simple list view, which is very
>>> similar behavior to the blog app. If there is a better solution using a
>>> ForeignKey, please point me in the right direction!
>>>
>>> I read an older post
>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mezzanine-users/HmNGXkf4m4k/FDJ1Rd-h1KsJ>
>>> about
>>> creating a new Displayable, and have used Mezzanine's source code to
>>> successfully extend the Displayable model and have it appear correctly in
>>> the admin. The issue now is that I can't seem to get the views (views.py)
>>> and url patterns to work. When clicked "view on site" from the admin, the
>>> url seems to grab the model's slug ("news"), but ends up linking to
>>> http://localhost:8000/en/admin/<myapp>/news/%28u/, and doesn't work
>>> linking directly to the actual item's slug. Exploring the source code for
>>> Mezzanine's blog's urls and views, I'm unsure how to correctly refactor. I
>>> understand that I will need to create my own templates to act as
>>> blog_post_list.html
>>> and blog_post_detail.html, but don't know how to create the super basic
>>> views to point to them.
>>>
>>> models.py:
>>> class News(Displayable, RichText):
>>>
>>> pagetitle = models.CharField('Title', max_length=255, blank=True)
>>> url = models.CharField('Link', max_length=255, blank=True)
>>> summary = models.CharField('Summary', max_length=255, blank=True)
>>> date = models.DateField(_("Date"), default=datetime.date.today)
>>> categories = models.ManyToManyField("NewsCategory",
>>> verbose_name=_("Categories
>>> (Magazine, Award, etc.)"),
>>> blank=True,
>>> related_name="newsitems")
>>> related_news = models.ManyToManyField("self",
>>> verbose_name=_("Related News"),
>>> blank=True)
>>>
>>> class Meta:
>>> verbose_name = _("News Item")
>>> verbose_name_plural = _("News Items")
>>>
>>> def get_absolute_url(self):
>>> url_name = 'news'
>>> kwargs = {
>>> 'slug': self.slug,
>>> }
>>> return (url_name, (), kwargs)
>>>
>>>
>>> class NewsCategory(Slugged):
>>> """
>>> A category for grouping news items into a series.
>>> """
>>>
>>> class Meta:
>>> verbose_name = _("News Category")
>>> verbose_name_plural = _("News Categories")
>>> ordering = ("title",)
>>>
>>> @models.permalink
>>> def get_absolute_url(self):
>>> return ("news_item_list_category", (), {"category": self.slug})
>>>
>>> admin.py
>>> news_fieldsets = deepcopy(DisplayableAdmin.fieldsets)
>>> news_fieldsets[0][1]["fields"].insert(1, "categories")
>>> news_fieldsets[0][1]["fields"].extend(["pagetitle", "url", "summary",
>>> "date"])
>>> news_fieldsets = list(news_fieldsets)
>>> news_fieldsets.insert(1, (_("Other News"), {
>>> "classes": ("collapse-closed",),
>>> "fields": ("related_news",)}))
>>> news_list_filter = deepcopy(DisplayableAdmin.list_filter) +
>>> ("categories",)
>>>
>>>
>>> class NewsAdmin(DisplayableAdmin):
>>> """
>>> Admin class for news posts.
>>> """
>>>
>>> fieldsets = news_fieldsets
>>> # list_display = news_list_display
>>> list_filter = news_list_filter
>>> filter_horizontal = ("categories", "related_news",)
>>>
>>> def save_form(self, request, form, change):
>>> """
>>> Super class ordering is important here - user must get saved
>>> first.
>>> """
>>> DisplayableAdmin.save_form(self, request, form, change)
>>> return DisplayableAdmin.save_form(self, request, form, change)
>>>
>>> class NewsCategoryAdmin(BaseTranslationModelAdmin):
>>> """
>>> Admin class for blog categories. Hides itself from the admin menu
>>> unless explicitly specified.
>>> """
>>>
>>> fieldsets = ((None, {"fields": ("title",)}),)
>>>
>>> def has_module_permission(self, request):
>>> """
>>> Hide from the admin menu unless explicitly set in
>>> ``ADMIN_MENU_ORDER``.
>>> """
>>> for (name, items) in settings.ADMIN_MENU_ORDER:
>>> if "blog.BlogCategory" in items:
>>> return True
>>> return False
>>>
>>>
>>> admin.site.register(News, NewsAdmin)
>>> admin.site.register(NewsCategory, NewsCategoryAdmin)
>>>
>>> urls.py:
>>> from .models import News
>>> import .views
>>>
>>> _slashes = (
>>> "/" if settings.BLOG_SLUG else "",
>>> "/" if settings.APPEND_SLASH else "",
>>> )
>>>
>>> urlpatterns = patterns(
>>> 'news.views',
>>> url("^%s(?P<slug>.*)%s$" % _slashes, "news", name="news"),
>>> )
>>>
>>> views.py:
>>> from django.shortcuts import render
>>>
>>> def news(request, slug):
>>> return HttpResponse('Test')
>>>
>>> The view is currently not even returning "Test." Any direction at all
>>> would be appreciated!
>>>
>>>
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