Fantastic solution, thank you so much. I will be sure to loose those phrases from my vocab as well :)
On Monday, August 27, 2012 3:18:52 AM UTC-4, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > On 27-8-2012 4:14, Matthew Meyer wrote: > > > So the question: Is there a way I can keep the flexible tag regex > redirect > > behavior but then "break" from it once I reach a product page? One > > important thing to note is that I want to keep the product page within > the > > built up url scheme like: mens/shirts/buttonups/shirt-product/ > > The first thing to note is that you need to get "redirect" and "break > out" out of your vocabulary. While Django's urlconfs look and walk like > rewrite engines, they are not rewrite engines. The primary difference is > that matches are handled in order and the first match wins, so there is > no "break out" principle. > Since a slug and a tag in your matches consist of identical character > classes there is no way to differentiate between one or the other. The > easy solution and one that is in line with the semantics of URLs is to > drop the trailing slash for the product. > "Back in the day" trailing slashes meant "directory listings" and no > trailing slash referred to "document requests" and this applies to your > scheme also. So your product url becomes: > url(r'^(?P<tag>.+)/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)$', 'product_page'), > -- > Melvyn Sopacua > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/FiWEJMZ7PHoJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
