Re: Customizing URL resolver

2009-09-17 Thread twold
On Sep 16, 4:14 pm, matehat wrote: > Oh, and trying to make the url resolving mechanism look in the > database is really a bad idea because it would trigger a bunch of > database queries every time a request is processed by your > application, which would really slow things down. What do you mea

Re: Customizing URL resolver

2009-09-17 Thread twold
On Sep 16, 4:11 pm, matehat wrote: > Hi, > > If the url only depends on the object's id (which I suppose don't > change with time), The only problem is, it doesn't :-) We'd like to be able to handle redirects. E.g. category "wine" is renamed to "wines", but we still want to be able to redirect b

Re: Customizing URL resolver

2009-09-16 Thread matehat
Oh, and trying to make the url resolving mechanism look in the database is really a bad idea because it would trigger a bunch of database queries every time a request is processed by your application, which would really slow things down. mathieu On 16 sep, 10:11, matehat wrote: > Hi, > > If the

Re: Customizing URL resolver

2009-09-16 Thread matehat
Hi, If the url only depends on the object's id (which I suppose don't change with time), you should not have it put in the database at first, because the object's id alone takes care of its persistence. Then, plugging it into Django's url resolving mechanism becomes really easy with the well-docu

Customizing URL resolver

2009-09-16 Thread twold
Hello, I am having little difficulties with django url system and I hope someone can clear it up. Here's what I want to achieve: we're going to have a tree-based catalog in our app and we'd like to index it like this: name1/name2/name3/... I've created a database lookup table url <- > id with urls