On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:21 PM, james_027 wrote: > > hi, > > is there any advantage or disadvantage or best practices in forming > urls? like which set are much better? > > domain/employee/1 > domain/edit_employee/1 > domain/inactive_employee/1 > > or > > domain/employee/1 > domain/employee/1/edit/ > domain/employee/1/inactive/ >
Better is always subjective. From a technical perspective, here is what the URL patterns look like: a) simple form r'domain/(?:(\w+)_)?(\w+)/(\d+)' one where you get all of the items nicely named: r'domain/(?:(?P<action>\w+)_)?(?P<object>\w+)/(?P<id>\d+)' b) r'domain/(\w+)/(\d+)(?:/(\w+))?' r'domain/(?P<object>\w+)/(?P<id>\d+)(?:/(?P<action>\w+))?' I see the first URL set as being function oriented and the second set being more object oriented. Just depends on how you prefer to see the world I suppose. Personally, I would probably do the second one. May I suggest the first choice get turned around slightly: domain/employee_edit/1 Like I said, I see the first grouping as more functional style and it is good practice to name the object first in function names. You end up with a regex like this: r'domain/(?P<object>\w+)(?:_(?P<action>\w+))?/(?P<id>\d+)' which reads better in my opinion. BTW, the (?:) syntax lets you group things without adding more items to the groupdict result. Purely optional, I just like to be really explicit about my regexes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
