Re: Django urls in JavaScript

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jonathan Slenders wrote: > > Like gettext, a seperate, dynamically generated javascript file for > URL resolving is not scalable to lange web applications. > And further, I think that the urls and names of views are not meant to > be

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

> Weird, I have missed this thread. But anyway, like sdcooke, that's > also the way that we handle URLs in javascript. > Attach a data attribute to the HTML node to which it applies, and read > it from inside the javascript. It's clean. > >       x:ajax-url="{% url accounts_ajax_edit_name %}">{%

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

On 18 mar, 13:43, sdcooke wrote: > I realise this doesn't apply to everyone but we've been coming up > against > this recently and every time I've looked at creating a JavaScript > version of > the URLs functionality I felt like it was overkill for our needs. 90% > of our >

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

Hey Marco, I have forked your library on GitHub and added the management command to build a list of urls and output the file in the format that is specified by django-js-utils. https://github.com/Dimitri-Gnidash/django-js-utils Cheers On Mar 24, 11:37 am, Marco Louro wrote:

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

That's also already done, check https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/master/django_extensions/management/commands/show_urls.py, it can be easily converted to JSON (I have a branch that does it, but it's not up-to-date). I also have the urls module in JavaScript already,

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

Ahh, I missed that from your original post. I like that. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

That's also already done, check https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/blob/master/django_extensions/management/commands/show_urls.py, it can be easily converted to JSON (I have a branch that does it, but it's not up-to-date). I also have the urls module in JavaScript already, but

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

It could just be a combo of both. There'd be one file for the urlresolver.js, and a patterns.js. Interesting. Now, could the patterns in Python be translated to Javascript properly? I'll do some playing around today and see if I can come up with some basics. Even if this doesn't land in Django

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

I think the biggest problem with translating the reverse() lookup is the lack of kwargs and named capture groups in Javascript regex. So a pattern such as: /page/(?P\d+)/ would not translate whatsoever. Then on the Javascript side, we wouldn't be able to use: reverse('goto_page', [],

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

I currently handle this issue in a much easier way: I've created an app which allows creating a context for Javascript (this basically works like the template context processors do, calling defined functions and combining its results into a dict). The resulting context will be available in the

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

There also proposes the problem of selecting which urls are "published" in this file and which aren't. Any ideas for that? I'm sure lots of people wouldn't want their entire sitemap exposed to the public in one large js file. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

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I might also add the script could literally be something that is created via a management command and served via staticfiles. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

"dynamic" is a bit strong, but yes. A generated js script that, based on the regex in your urlpatterns, provides functions that plug vars into url templates... so yeah! A lot of the resolving logic wouldn't (read "shouldn't") be needed so long as unique names are used for the views. -- You

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

So you're basically proposing to write a Javascript library that is a translation of URLResolver, and essentially have a dynamic "Javascript" file that could be included that would contain your URL patterns? Just trying to make sure we're on the same page. -- You received this message because

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

Somewhat incomplete thought there -- once the urlpatterns have been analyzed, the resulting chunk of generated js can be cached (where ever) and served up statically, or inline in your templates. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers"

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

Url patterns don't tend to change at runtime, right? I don't think resolving urls one by one via ajax calls is going to work. Reimplementing the resolve/reverse mechanisms in javascript - or better yet, using the "native" resolve/reverse code to generate javascript functions that take args

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

How could this even begin to be solved without incurring another http request to resolve the url pattern? The only way I can imagine it is if we had a generic /resolve/ path that took some get parameters to return a full URL, or even it translate to a 301 redirect, but that'll get messy with

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Marco Louro wrote: > I don't really know how to approach this issue the best way, so I'm > just going to be direct, I'd love to see Django provide support for > django.core.urlresolvers.reverse (at least) on the client (in > JavaScript). > >

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

On 17 March 2011 16:58, Carl Meyer wrote: > Hi Marco, > > On 03/17/2011 10:44 AM, Marco Louro wrote: >> I don't really know how to approach this issue the best way, so I'm >> just going to be direct, I'd love to see Django provide support for >> django.core.urlresolvers.reverse

Re: Django urls in JavaScript

Hi Marco, On 03/17/2011 10:44 AM, Marco Louro wrote: > I don't really know how to approach this issue the best way, so I'm > just going to be direct, I'd love to see Django provide support for > django.core.urlresolvers.reverse (at least) on the client (in > JavaScript). I think this is really

Django urls in JavaScript

I don't really know how to approach this issue the best way, so I'm just going to be direct, I'd love to see Django provide support for django.core.urlresolvers.reverse (at least) on the client (in JavaScript). I'm pretty sure all who have needed to make AJAX queries have dealt with the issue of