On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Adrian von Bidder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Heyho!
>
> Is there documentation available (assuming there is some support code) on
> how to handle URLs?
>
take a look at tg.url and tg.redirect
> * get the base URL of the controller? There is request.application_url,
> can I get the path from tg where the controller is hooked up to get the next
> level(s) up to the controller where I'm in? (Obviously I can specify pass
> this in from config file or pass a variable when I hook up the controller,
> but since obviously tg already knows this url, I don't want to duplicate
> this...)
>
> * should I cobble together URLs manually in templates? To create a "edit
> this record" link, I currently do something like:
> <a href="EDIT?id=${mydata.id}">edit</a>
> Is this the right thing to do?
>
> * related: once I properly use repoze, I'll need to pass in the
> authenticated session in the above case. Is there a call to create the URL,
> adding session id if available? (Or does repoze/tg always use cookies?)
>
> * not really related: special chars in URLs?
> I'd like to have short URLs, so http://.../name would directly show the data
> record "name" (without having a /.../view/name URL). Works nicely with a
> default method of my controller, Since I don't want to restrict acceptable
> names, I need to reserve a namespace for administrative requests (login
> page, "create new" URL etc.) .../?cmd=blah would be one solution, but then
> I'd have to always go through the default method of the controller, so I
> couldn't use @validate and other niceties. (... mnight as well write it as
> CGI in shell ;-) So I thought about using URLs with a "non-special special
> char", i.e. non-alphanumerical that is passed throug normally by browsers
> and web servers. '!' is my favorite right now, but I think '$' might do the
> same, or possibly '|'. ('_' might work, too, but I'd like to keep this
> available as a normal character to get URLs without real space characters.)
>
> So, in short: how do I map this in tg to the method of a controller?
>
> cheers
> -- vbi
>
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