Adrian Holovaty wrote:
On 12/30/05, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what about the "root" of the website, how do you specify a view for just
"mysite.com"?
To target the root, use '^$' as the regular expression, like so:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', 'path.to.my_view'),
)
Does this answer your question?
Yes. But I still seem to be off somewhere...
From http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial3/#write-your-first-view
there is:
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from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponse
def index(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the poll index.")
This is the simplest view possible. Go to "/polls/" in your browser, and you
should see your text.
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I don't know how to reconcile this with what James Bennett and limodou wrote
about using render_to_response() instead of HttpResponse() as none of the
examples in the docs use render_to_response() as their return value from the
view method. So the advice seems contradictory to the docs.
The tutorial seems to be saying that anything returned from a view by way of
the HttpResponse() call will be sent directly to the screen. And at another
place is shows the url pattern to trap the correct url:
(r'^polls/$', 'myproject.apps.polls.views.index')
Which seems a simple process of
urlpattern -> view -> template -> screen
But I can't see in the tutorial example what is put in the template that will
receive this "Hello, world..." output.
Thanks,
Michael
