On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:21:09PM -0600, Adrian Holovaty wrote: > The convention is to put the URL-creation logic in your models, in a > get_absolute_url() method. Here's a quick example: > ... > You're right to imply that this goes against the DRY principle, > because you have to define URLs in two places -- the URLconfs and the > models. In practice, this isn't that big of a deal (in my humble > opinion), but we've given some thought to putting the > get_absolute_url() logic in URLconfs instead, so at least the logic is > in a single file.
I believe that anything to do with a URL certainly does NOT belong in the model. Models are, in part, an abstraction of the data... the scheme... etc. Models should have nothing to do with the URL for an object! And that has nothing to do with whether the data appears in one or many places... the Model just isn't the right place for this data to be defined. While I know that the URLconfs is Python code, it doesn't seem that that's the right place either... from an abstraction point of view. The place that seems "right" is in the view itself... or perhaps actually at the template level. If in the view, it would need the URLconfs passing to the view the "base" of the URL that matched this view (or a dict or something, not necessarily the actual RE match!). Even doing it in the view will be "tough" since: a) different objects displayed in a view might have very different URL paths -- paths "outside" the view. b) normally it's the template that's actually displaying or making use of the URL of an object. A template T1 may want the url of object X to be different than that same object when displayed in template T2. -- Glenn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
