Re: Need Help Thinking Through How to Setup URLS and VIEWS
On Mar 29, 2:54 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Specifically, i need help with:
> 1. How do I test to see what a slug is? I.E. In my case, is it a
> section or a page.
>
> Finally, am I barking up the wrong tree? Would it be simpler to just
> write a custom view that does what I want? Any advice is much
> appreciated.
I think the flow could go something like the following. I'm guessing
that it makes sense to check the Section slug before the Page slug but
that could easily be reversed...
def section_or_page(request, slug):
# Look for section and call section_detail if found
try:
section = Section.objects.get(slug=slug)
except Section.DoesNotExist:
pass # Check for page down below
else:
return section_detail(request, section) # another view
# Look for page and call page_detail if found
try:
page = Page.objects.get(slug=slug)
except Page.DoesNotExist:
pass # return 404 below
else:
return page_detail(request, page)
# Otherwise, return 404
raise Http404, "No page or section found matching the slug: %s" %
(slug)
Then your detail views can do what you'd normally do, for example:
def section_detail(request, section):
# get other pieces from other models?
return render_to_response('section/blah.html', {'section':
section, 'other': other_model},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
Hope that helps,
Rob
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Need Help Thinking Through How to Setup URLS and VIEWS
I am stuck trying to think through how to work something out. I want a user to be able to create sections in an admin for a site. A user can assign pages to a section. For instance, create the section About and add the pages About Us and Contact and Staff. That is all done. No problems. The part that is hard for me is thinking through to Urls and Views. This is kind of what makes sense to me: If a slug contains just a page name... display the page detail. If a slug contains a section name... display the section and any page associated with it. Maybe a page list.. I have a different way to designate the section homepage. Anyways... I thought.. ooh, wrappers would work well here. What I need is to create a wrapper that useses the generic.views.object_detail. That is easy enough. Problem is... how do I query other models based on many to many relationships ... my head is swimming. I realize this is alot. Can anyone suggest a direction to start looking? Specifically, i need help with: 1. How do I test to see what a slug is? I.E. In my case, is it a section or a page. Finally, am I barking up the wrong tree? Would it be simpler to just write a custom view that does what I want? Any advice is much appreciated. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
