On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:19:39PM -0600, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > "correct" and just as simple, and each time I've failed. As far as > I'm concerned, if someone can come up with a way to do this that's > stupidly simple then I'm all for a change, but at the same time > get_absolute_url() is a wart I'm willing to live with.
Just thinking aloud... In the model you want to know "what is this object's identifier that we would use in a url". That might be just an object ID, a slug, or maybe yyyy/mm/dd/id or who knows what. This would be formated such that it could be used as-is as PART of a URL. Let's call this method "get_id_for_url()" (or whatever you end up calling it) That seems to be the appropriate type of data to come from a Model.. i.e. not the entire absolute URL, but just a portion of the URL that would be used to identify this Model's object. Then, in the particular view (not clear, it might be and/or in the template) you would want to combine some base URL string with the previous get_id_for_url string to make it into a real url. To do that might need just a variable "base_url" (or it could be yet another view specific method) that changes by the view. So in a template you'd have to do {{ base_url }}{{ this-object.get_id_for_url }} In your urls.py and/or view you'd setup a dict to pass the appropriate value to the template e.g. info_dict = { 'app_label': 'myapp', 'module_name': 'mymods', 'base_url': 'mymods', } That would allow me to use the generic views if I sent the 'base_url' correctly, or you could even have it default to the 'module_name'. Or I could code it into my view's code however I wish. ????? -- Glenn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---