Thanks for the correction. I guess my version allows you to eliminate the app, controller, and function, but doesn't allow anything else in the url in that case.
Anthony On Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:34:19 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Simon Bushell wrote: > > This is a neat solution Anthony (actually, it was my original idea for > solving this). however I seem to be getting the same error: invalid > function (default/tcgata). > > > > Forgive me, is this code in the root-level routes.py? or a routes.py in > applications/shortener? > > > > Should anything else be in routes.py? > > If I'm remembering this correctly, you want something like this (root > level is fine): > > routers = dict( > BASE = dict( > default_application = 'shortener', > ), > shortener = dict( > default_controller = 'default', > default_function = 'index', > functions = ['index', 'user', 'download', 'call'], > ), > ) > > ...where the functions list is a complete list of the visible functions in > the default controller (that is, any function that can appear in a URL). > > The router needs that list so it can distinguish function names from args, > and can then omit 'index'. Since in your example tcgata is not in the > functions list, it can be safely treated as args[0]. > > > > > > S > > > > > > > > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:40:09 PM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: > > routes_in = ( > > (r'^/?$', r'/app_name/default/index'), > > (r'^/(?P<url>[^/]*)/?$', > r'/app_name/default/index/\g<url>'), > > ) > > > > > > in your root-level routes.py The drawback is that you will lose access > to all other apps (including admin) but that can be a good thing for public > deployments. > > > > You can catch the other apps by adding route patterns that match them > before your catch-all pattern (the patterns are processed in order, and the > first match is used). Anyway, using the parametric router and specifying > the url-shortening app as the default app might be simpler: > > > > routers = dict( > > BASE = dict( > > default_application = 'shortener', > > default_controller = 'default', > > default_function = 'index', > > ), > > ) > > > > Then http://myapp.com/tcgata will get routed to > http://myapp.com/shortener/default/index/tcgata, and "tcgata" will be > available to the index() function in request.args(0). > > > > >
