Yup. That is exactly what I wanted to do... I hadn't made up my mind onto wether I wanted to force a redirect or stick with the original URL. But as you mentioned the SEO aspect is important and an added bonus would be that a canonical url would "feel" more structured.
Thanks for the quick reply. I will give your example a whirl. Casper On Jun 17, 11:18 am, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > 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() > > -- > DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
