Thanks for this suggestion Massimo - it's the closest to what I'm looking
for. I've tried to get it to work but no joy.
I've changed my global routes.py to use parameter based routing sand put the
first part of your code in the application specific routes.py.
I've then put the 2nd part of your code into the default controller. But if
you go to:
myapp.com/Supersite/users
I get:
invalid controller (Supersite/users)
I've tried but can't figure out a solution...
On 23 March 2011 13:46, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>wrote:
> yes. For example:
>
> routes_in = [
> ('/$yoursitename/users','/init/default/users/$yoursitename'),
> ]
>
> the optionally
>
> @request.restful()
> def users():
> def GET(yoursitename):
> return dict(message='your site name is: '+yoursitename)
> return locals()
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Anthony wrote:
>
> Massimo, I think Tom was referring to Flask's ability to include an arg at
> an arbitrary place in the URL path (e.g., '/<yoursitename>/users'), not the
> ability to specify the routes via decorators. I think the former *can* be
> achieved in web2py using the pattern-based rewrite system, right?
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:17:31 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
>> This is not an option in web2py because the controller is executed
>> after the requests arrives not imported before (as in Flask). Anyway,
>> that works better for simple apps but becomes a mess if you have many
>> functions because the routing info is scattered all over the place.
>> Moreover - when it comes to rest - it requires that you use the same
>> function for multiple methods (GET/POST/etc) by using multiple
>> decorators or that you use different functions with different names to
>> handle different names (I do not like that).
>>
>> On Mar 22, 3:13 am, Tom Atkins <mink...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I might be being naive here but in Flask I can do:
>> >
>> > @app.route('/<yoursitename>/users')
>> > ... def editusers(yoursitename): pass
>> >
>> > print url_for('editprofile', yoursitename='Supersite')
>> >
>> > gives:
>> >
>> > /Supersite/users
>> >
>> > On 22 March 2011 05:23, Jonathan Lundell <jlun...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Indra Gunawan wrote:
>> >
>> > > Agree, Flask way looks more elegant (see Variable Rules). It could be
>> nice
>> > > if this way also exists on Web2Py.
>> >
>> > > On 22 March 2011 06:05, Tom Atkins <mink...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> I was playing with Flask and I have to say its solution to routing is
>> very
>> > >> nice:
>> >
>> > >>http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/#routing
>> >
>> > >> The use of variable names anywhere within the URL structure is very
>> handy.
>> > >> Anything like this possible in web2py?
>> >
>> > > Flask doesn't really allow variable names anywhere; near as I can tell
>>
>> > > they're a considerably restricted version of web2py's args list.
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