From: Ben Pritchard
Subject: A Top-Level Django Index for the root URL
The intention is that this page will list all my of sandbox
projects. So at the moment it just links to http://localhost:8000/polls
but (a) coding the link seems like a HTML solution rather than a Django
solution and (b) it will be tedious to update this html template file
each time I add a new subsection to my site.
So, is there a Django solution that can list the available
mini-sites that are available?
Hi Ben,
I'm in that same boat, and I'm considering my options:
My first attempt was to change the way the INSTALLED_APPS is built - as
detailed in
http://www.mabula.net/tbfw/2008/11/07#2008-11-07-dont-repeat-yourself-tn
g - and to write a middleware which presented the 'shown apps' as a
structure to read in the template. Following the principle of Don't
Repeat Yourself, this then lists each application once along with all
the information relevant to it. This is, however, a fairly heavy-handed
approach in my opinion as it means re-jiggering things in settings.py.
My second idea, not yet implemented, is to write a middleware which
introspects the list of URLs. If it finds one named 'index' (where
'named' means 'named or with a view named'), that's taken to be the root
URL. Anything with '(.*)_index' that is in the same directory as the
root URL is taken to be an application - that URL becomes the
application URL path. Once you're in that application, anything with
'(.*)_index' in the same directory as the application's URL path is a
sub-menu of that application and so forth. That makes it relatively
easy to list URLs in a structure that most projects follow without
repeating the application structure elsewhere or having to do terrible
things to settings.py.
My question is: is the second idea Django-ish enough? I'd like some
feedback from the list before I start work on it as to whether it's a
dead end, whether there's a better way, or just to hear any improvements
on that scheme.
Your thoughts?
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TransACT
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