Re: Challenge teaching Django to beginners: urls.py

[Sjoerd Job Postmus]

I have a feeling this is orthogonal to the original request.

The original request/problem was "regex is hard".
Your response answers/solves "the URL definition is somewhere different from the view definition".

Both issues are realistic [1], and orthogonal.

[1]: I myself have great aversion to the approach where URL patterns are spread out over the codebase, but I know others are greatly prefer the approach that Flask takes.

On Sep 29, 2016 8:11 PM, "Sven R. Kunze" <srku...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Emil,

that's not only a teaching issue. Also experienced devs struggle with this way to declaring URLs.

Internally, we developed a UrlMixin for our view classes such as:

class MyView(UrlMixin, View):

    url_pattern = r'^bar/foo/$'

    view_name = 'my-index'

    # rest of view code

That's all we need to do in order to define a view with a working url pattern.

Reverse works with the optional view_name or by reversing the class itself.

Maybe, the simplification of your proposal could be explored by providing such a UrlMixin first.

Best,

Sven

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