On Jun 17, 7:39 am, "C. Feldmann" <casper.feldm...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I was wondering how to implement the following without having to
> hardcode each url.
> I have different apps like i.e. books, authors, magazines, etc.
> Normally I would call upon default views by using something
> like:http://localhost/books/James_and_the_Giant_Peach
> orhttp://localhost/authors/Roald_Dahl
>
> How can I configure django to search through the different
> possibilities if someone i.e. called up the
> urlhttp://localhost/James_and_the_Giant_Peach
> orhttp://localhost/Roald_Dahl?
>
> I could probably hardcode "redirects" in the urls file, but there are
> too many possible urls and they change too often. How can I make this
> more dynamic?
>
> Thanks
> Casper
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you need to do. But it sounds
like you want a 'dispatcher' method which catches all URLs, checks
through all the things they could be, then hands off to the correct
view.
It's not clear whether you want to actually serve the page from the
initial URL - /Roald_Dahl/ - or force the browser to redirect to the
actual URL, /authors/Roald_Dahl/. I would recommend the second (for
SEO reasons it's always best to serve content on a single canonical
URL) but it's up to you.
from myapp.models import Books, Authors
from myotherapp.models import Whatever
def dispatcher(request, slug):
models = (('books': Books),
('authors': Authors),
('whatever': Whatever))
for name, model in models:
try:
obj = model.objects.get(slug=slug)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(name, slug))
except Model.DoesNotExist:
pass
# no matching object found, return 404
return HttpResponseNotFound()
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