Hi Matthew,
Are you aware of Python's urlencode?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.urlencode
It sounds like you want something like:
def reverse_with_querystring(viewname, data=None):
return "{url}{querystring}".format(url=reverse(viewname),
querystring='?' + urlencode(data) if data else '')
Collin
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:35 AM, Matthew Bridges <
matthew.brid...@wearefarm.com> wrote:
> Hello all, first contribution to the dev community here, I wanted to get
> some thoughts on a feature that I thought might be a helpful.
>
> I notice myself writing this pattern a lot when constructing redirect URLS.
>
> ```
> def some_view(request):
> querystring = "?some-key={some_key}&another-
> key={another_key}".format(some_key=some_value, another_key=another_value)
> url = "{url}{querystring}".format(url=reverse('some_app:some_view'),
> querystring=querystring)
> return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
> ```
>
> I was thinking about writing a helper function that grabbed a reversed
> URL, and unpacked a data dict into a query string. Building up strings
> feels nasty, and doing this in a functional manner feels much nicer.
>
> Pseudo code might look something like:
>
> ```
> def reverse_with_querystring(viewname, data=None)
> # get viewname
>
> # loop over data
>
> # IRI encode url
>
> # return constructed URL
> ```
>
> ```
> url = reverse_with_querystring('myapp:myview', data={'keyone': '123',
> 'keytwo' 321)
> ```
>
> Questions:
> - Do other people use this syntax to build up querystrings / am I solving
> a problem that doesn't need solving?
> - Is there already a helper that allows this behaviour?
> - If the function were to be included, would django/urls be the
> appropriate module, given that the function utilises reverse? Or perhaps
> somewhere else. The behaviour would be similar to get_absolute_url type
> functions.
> - Am I doing this right?
>
> Thanks :)
>
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