> > "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.
>
> 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.
That's similar to what I do. The get_absolute_url() concatenates a
<SOME_APP>_BASE_URL from settings.py or from the top of models.py with
what you call get_id_for_url. This isn't completely clean but easy to
change if you remember where to look for the constant.
Arthur
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