newforms-admin has a special-cased URL dispatcher in site.py. (see #6470) Various REST-ish frameworks have a '.*' url mapping and a similar hacky dispatcher.
Django has a nice URL dispatcher in core/urlresolvers.py, which could drop in and replace those ad-hoc dispatchers. Only it takes the name of a module where you'll find urlpatterns, instead of urlpatterns itself. Removing that one assumption to a subclass makes RegexURLResolver immediately more useful. I've pulled the common functionality into a BaseRegexURLResolver, which takes (regex, url_patterns, default_kwargs) in __init__. If url_patterns is callable, it calls it before first use and takes the result. RegexURLResolver then inherits from BaseRegexURLResolver, but overrides url_patterns to lazily import the module. I've tried using the newly factored base class in my version of a RESTful Resource class, and so far I like the results. The naming of a few things could use some more thought, though. A tangible upshot is that nested resources become much easier to configure; some recent email on this list discussed that. Patch? I got a little carried away improving the documentation and trying to fix #4824, so the diff looks much scarier than the change. The result lives temporarily at http://code.google.com/p/django-webapp/source/browse/trunk/dwa/urlresolvers.py. I haven't run the test suite on it, but I've tried two of my apps on it and they work. (The attempt at fixing #4824 actually caught a minor bug in my app code...) I wanted to get any feedback on this change before submitting a ticket, but if people think it's a good idea, I can clean up the patch and make a ticket. -Ken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
