On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Simon Bushell wrote: > Many thanks Jonathan. That did the trick.
Glad to hear it. Now that you've tested it, some color commentary for router users. > routers = dict( > BASE = dict( > default_application = 'shortener', > ), BASE might better be named GLOBAL. It takes the default routing dict (see router.example.py) and modifies them as specified. In this case, we want to specify the default application, which needs to be done globally, at the base level. > shortener = dict( Following BASE, we specify routing parameters for specific apps. The effective router for any give app is the default router dictionary, updated by the BASE dictionary, updated by the app's dictionary (if any). > default_controller = 'default', > default_function = 'index', These are actually the default values; they're only here for documentation, and aren't strictly necessary. > functions = ['index', 'user', 'download', 'call'], By default, the router scans the app's controllers directory to get the controller names, but it relies on the router dict for the function names. It wants them because it wants to map: http://domain.com/foobar -> /shortener/default/index/foobar http://domain.com/user -> /shortener/default/user It does that by looking at the function candidates (foobar and user, above) and seeing whether they're in the functions list. In outgoing URL() mapping, it uses the list to safely omit elements. So if args[0] is 'foobar', it can omit a/c/f safely. But suppose the function is 'index', but args[0] is 'user', which collides with a known function name. Now it knows that it can't safely omit the function name, and the outgoing URL becomes '/index/user'. If you *don't* specify the functions list, then the outgoing URL drops the default function name (here 'index') only if args is empty. > ), > ) > > Thank you to everyone who helped out > > S > > > > On Friday, March 30, 2012 3:01:58 AM UTC+1, Anthony wrote: > 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). > > > > > > > > > >
