Hi Thomas,
When you define the urls patterns, you don't have to specify each
possibility. What you do is create a pattern that can match all the values
that might be there and, then, on your view, you check to see if they exist
on the DB.
One possible way is like this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', index),
(r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
(r'^job/(?P<job_name>[\_\w]+)/$', list_job_details),
)
Then, you define you list_job_details like this:
def list_job_details(request, job_name):
j = Job.objects..(job_name=job_name)
Check the docs for URLs to see why I used the named group (?<P...>) in the
url definition.
HTH,
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Thomas <thomas.e.rectenw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm learning Django and have some questions regarding passing data to
> urlpatterns. Right now, I have something like this in my urls.py:
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^$', index),
> (r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
> )
>
> This works fine. I.e., any URL that matches ^list_jobs/ is handled by
> the list_jobs method in my views.py. That calls a template which
> displays the list of jobs in an HTML table.
>
> So, now I have a list of jobs displayed in HTML, i.e. something like:
>
> Job | Severity | Message
>
> morning_job | INFO | Testing 123
> evening_job | ERROR | Testing 456
>
> My next step, I figured would be to have a user click on 'job1' or
> 'job2' in the table and call up information on that job in a new
> window. So, I imagine that the correct way to do this within Django
> would be to have the HREF point to a the job in the URL. I.e.:
>
> http://myserver:8000/morning_job
> http://myserver:8000/evening_job
>
> My next though was... grr, how do I do this? So, I figured I can get
> the job names in the urls.py by first creating a method:
>
> from myapp.models import *
> def get_job_names():
> job_names = []
> for j in TransJob.objects.all():
> job_names.append(j.job)
> return job_names
> job_names = get_job_names()
>
> So, now I have a list (job_names) that would contain:
>
> ['morning_job', 'evening_job']
>
> I think I'm getting close. Final step is to somehow take that list
> and put it within urlpatterns. So, I tried something like:
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^$', index),
> (r'^list_jobs/', list_jobs),
> (job_names, list_job_details),
> )
>
> Here is where I get lost. I think I'm going down the wrong path
> here. The above comes back with a TypeError saying "unhashable type:
> 'list'" ... I'm guessing that you can't put a list in place of the raw
> string that the patterns method expects. So, my question is... how do
> I get patterns to match all results for the list.
>
> I hope this makes some sense. I tried to be verbose as I'm new to the
> framework. Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
> >
>
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