So, the way to handle these types of links (with the example before): welcome/default/products/(\d{2}) # shows overall product page for given product primary id welcome/default/products/(\d{2})/description # shows product description for given product primary id welcome/default/products/(\d{2})/comments # shows product comments for given product primary id welcome/default/products/(\d{2})/comments/(\d{2}) # shows specific comment for a specific product given comment id and product id
Would be to manually check request.args to determine what action to take? I imagine it would be kind of messy like this: def products(): request_length = len(request.args) if request_length == 1: # return all info on requested product elif request_length == 2: if request.args[1] == 'description': # return description of requested product elif request.args[1] == 'comments': # return comments of requested product elif request_length == 3: if request.args[1] == 'comments': # return single comment given its id else: # redirect to error I feel like I'm missing something because this seems a bit counter-intuitive and highly messy, especially as the number of urls may grow in a large site? On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:13:29 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > In that case, you could do something like: > > def places(): > lastname, firstname = request.args[0:2] > > Then for a URL like /myapp/mycontroller/places/John/Doe, "John" would be > in request.args[0] and "Doe" would be in request.args[1]. > > Anthony > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:57:55 AM UTC-5, brac...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Sorry, let me clarify and be more specific again. The framework I >> referred to was Django, where their url dispatcher can create named groups >> like so: >> >> r'^places/(?P<lastname>\w+)/(?P<firstname>\w+)/$', 'misc.views.home' >> >> >> This url would be mapped to a function with the name given in the url: >> >> >> def home(request, lastname, firstname) >> >> # Do something with name and return data to webpage >> >> >> >> I don't quite understand how web2py's routes.py would handle this. >> >> >> >> >>>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.