Hi Sean, Thanks for writing this up! This kind of posting is good for showing off our strengths and weaknesses here...
On 11/5/05, Sean Cazzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > URL Mapping > > This one has to go to Django. The regexp-based url mapping makes it > easy to have beautiful, clean URLs in your app and to map them to any > arbitrary function. Things like: > > http://www.example.com/blog/my_slug_here/ > > You can do this sort of thing in TurboGears, it just isn't as easy. > TurboGears uses CherryPy for a front end which really prefers options to > be specified in get variables like > > http://www.example.com/blog?slug=my_slug_here People don't realize this, but CherryPy's system is a lot more flexible than people give it credit for, and I like how CP does not require a separate configuration for URLs. Your example here can be handled fairly simply: class Blog: @turbogears.expose() def default(self, slug): ...do something... class Root(controllers.Root): blog = Blog() Also, CP 2.2 is going to add back positional parameters handling for methods. There's a ticket open to do this in TurboGears, and I may just do that as an interim measure until CP 2.2 is out. So, that adds this option: class Root(controllers.Root): @turbogears.expose() def blog(self, slug): ...do something... This would actually allow either of these URLs to work: /blog/slug /blog?slug=slug Kevin
