Well, ... I know about reverse_lazy
Sorry for not explaining myself good enough:
reverse_lazy can't do:
url( 'bar/foo/(?P<pk>[0-9]*)/', *RedirectView*( url=
*reverse_lazy*('foo_stuff')
),
url( 'foo/(?P<pk>[0-9]*)/', some_view_func, name = 'foo_stuff' ),
What a RedirectView supporting URL Names (...) could do:
url( 'bar/foo/(?P<pk>[0-9]*)/', *RedirectView*( view_name = 'foo_stuff' ),
url( 'foo/(?P<pk>[0-9]*)/', some_view_func, name = 'foo_stuff' ),
I'm handling it as a view-name instead of url name, because in my opinion,
a view in -some specific URL-Context- always has a name that can be chosen,
that even if the URL changes in some detail, it would remain the same:
* posts_by_specific_user * or something like that - if it is located in
'/user/<user-pk>/posts/' or
'/department/<who-cares-we-have-the-global-user-pk>/users/<user-pk>/posts/'
An URL... well i wouldn't know why to name a URL - a URL is more or less
something like a name / identifier. Just not this intuitive understandable
or in some cases longtime-persistent. Changing a URL would somehow result
in changing the url-name (because otherwise the name would result form
something else than the URL itself) - and thats just a real pity because
something that does the same would be named differently.
Benefit for using it like this:
- Caused by whatever decisions (this shouldn't happen but most likely
always will..) the url of a specific VIEW changes, one can now support the
legacy URL because other sites might have linked to it and 301 (Moved
Permanently) Redirect it to the new URL, specified by the view name.
- Or in some other case for APIs when representing a Resource: when
having the same resource at two different URLs, one can easily 302 redirect
it to one *base* view (once again, the URL might change. especially when
using versioned URLs)
What would needed to be changed in *RedirectView*:
By having something like this in the *get()* method:
*get_redirect_url(request, args=args kwargs=kwargs)*
and in *get_redirect_url:*
*elif self.view_name:*
*url = reverse( self.view_name, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)*
one could dynamically pass those url args and kwargs, of a dynamic url
regarding to https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15273:
i don't understand why such a basic concept like named urls/views are
somehow integrated in django (template tag: url) but in this case just
accessible
through nasty workarounds (reverse_lazy). In my opinion a workaround like
this often just points out, that something is probably unfinished. And in
my opinion this is definitely the case when looking at RedirectView and
those .. view-names .. because some important functionality is not
available.
So - i would really appreciate having this functionality (as far as i don't
miss anything you guys thought about, that speaks against it).
best regards
ludwig
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