Hello fellow Django developers,
I would like to request your assistance on a caveat I ran into when doing
slugs in the django url's.
First off please let me lay out what I've been building:
Here are the internals of my urls.py:
(r'^artists/register/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistRegistration'
),
(r'^artists/login/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistLoginRequest'),
(r'^artists/logout/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistLogoutRequest'
),
(r'^artists/(?P<artistreq>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$',
'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistProfile'),
Here are some relevant views.py functions:
# Artist Profile
def ArtistProfile(request, artistreq):
artist_object = Artist.objects.filter(artisturl = artistreq)
return render_to_response('artistprofile.html', {'Artist':
artist_object}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))
and
# Artist Registration
def ArtistRegistration(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect('/artists/profile')
if request.method == 'POST':
form = ArtistRegistrationForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
# If information entered is valid create the user
# user = User.objects.create_user('john',
'len...@thebeatles.com', 'johnpassword')
artistusername = form.cleaned_data['artistusername']
artistemail = form.cleaned_data['artistemail']
artistpassword = form.cleaned_data['artistpassword']
artistuser = User.objects.create_user(username=artistusername,
email=artistemail, password=artistpassword)
# Save new user to the database
artistuser.save()
artist = Artist(artistuser=artistuser,
artistname=form.cleaned_data['artistname'],
artistbirthday=form.cleaned_data['artistbirthday'],
artisturl=form.cleaned_data['artisturl'])
artist.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/artists/profile/')
else:
return render_to_response('registerartist.html', {'form':
form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
else:
''' user is not submitting the form, show the blank registration
form '''
form = ArtistRegistrationForm()
context = {'form': form}
return render_to_response('registerartist.html', context,
context_instance = RequestContext(request))
So, basically here is the caveat: If a user requests artists/register the
site goes to hell. Why? well it's because as you might have guessed that
request also fits the regex expression listed where I url config'd (r
'^artists/(?P<artistreq>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$',
'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistProfile'),
and so the url config does not behave as I desired. Or if I requested
likewise if you put artists/ [artistuser] it collides still with the rest
of the url configs. So, my quick fix and was:
(r'^artists/register/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistRegistration'
),
(r'^artists/login/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistLoginRequest'),
(r'^artists/logout/$', 'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistLogoutRequest'
),
(r'^artists/profile/(?P<artistreq>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$',
'madtrak.userprofiles.views.ArtistProfile'),
which thereby says hey if I only see artists/profile/ and then the
requested artists profile then I behave as desired and return that artists
public profile. Which makes sure it is obviously not listening at just
artists/ [anything else]
Yet the thing is I REALLY want to be able to have it is I originally had
it. I like how clean it is. I strongly desire the situation where I can
host all the registration, login, logout, and any other systems that I
desire following the artists/ but also want to be able to also cleanly host
all artists usernames following the artists/ so that it properly querys the
db and returns that artists profile.
I was thinking maybe I could hack this out with python regex or something
of the like but is there a way in django to hack this together?
Thanks so much,
JJ
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