You also need:
functions = ['list', 'of', 'functions', 'in', 'default',
'controller']
Otherwise, there is no way for the router to distinguish a valid function
from an arg being passed to the default function.
Anthony
On Monday, September 2, 2013 10:16:54 AM UTC-7, xelomac wrote:
>
> Meanwhile I gave the parameter-based rewrite system a try again. I have:
>
> routers = dict(
> BASE = dict(
> default_application='color_book',
> default_controller = 'colors',
> default_function = 'show_color_page',),
> color_book = dict(languages=['en', 'it', 'fr', 'de'],
> default_language='en'),
> )
>
> In contrast to my initial idea it should be possible to pass my color and
> color variation categories as args to the URL function to build my desired
> URL structure and let the parameter-based routes.py just cut off the
> application, controller and function names instead of replacing them using
> a pattern-based routes.py file.
>
> This works half way: Above defined application and controller names are
> left out as soon as the routes.py is loaded. And I can access my pages
> without app and controller name in the URL. But leaving out the function
> name only works for the index page:
>
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/ (index page loads correctly)
>
> The original URL (
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/color_book/colors/show_color_page/title-of-the-pageof
> other pages cannot be replaced by entering
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/title-of-the-page (invalid request)
> I have to enter: http://127.0.0.1:8000/show_color_page/title-of-the-pageto
> access that page.
>
> Any idea why?
>
>
>
> On Monday, September 2, 2013 3:20:05 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> What does your routes.py file look like now?
>>
>> On Monday, September 2, 2013 2:22:38 AM UTC-7, xelomac wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> after playing around with routes.py for a while I wonder if what I want
>>> to do is possible at all. I want to rewrite the URLs shown to the visitor
>>> after clicking a menu link in the following way:
>>>
>>> Lets say I built a site that deals with colors. My menu shows base color
>>> links like red, green, blue on the top level and variations of the the base
>>> colors on the next menu level. My app would be named "color_book" my
>>> controller "colors" and the the function showing the pages
>>> "show_color_page".
>>>
>>> After clicking the submenu item "light-blue" under the parent menu-item
>>> "blue" I would normally see an URL in the browser like:
>>> http://my.domain.com/color_book/colors/show_color_page/light-blue
>>>
>>> But I want to rewrite the URL to: http://my.domain.com/blue/light-blue
>>>
>>> Accordingly a page with the menu location "red > dark-red" should be
>>> presented with: http://my.domain.com/red/light-red
>>>
>>> I thought that a pattern-based routes.py could be configured to do
>>> things like that. But I've only had success with rewriting URLs manually
>>> entered in the browser's address field so far- but not with internal links.
>>>
>>> Is there an example for my use case somewhere?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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