> For instance, if you also had categories of users and wanted to be
> able to list the users in each category, a 'human-friendly' url
> scheme might look like this:
>
> www.mysite.com/users/matt --> go to my area
> www.mysite.com/users/jess --> go to Jess' area
> www.mysite.com/users/mark --> go to Mark's area
> www.mysite.com/users/premium --> list all premium members
> www.mysite.com/users/economy --> list all economy members
>
> It's a contrived example, but if the categories were also numerous and
> data-driven, you'd need a different solution to those mentioned. I
> could always use "www.mysite.com/users/categories/premium", but it
> doesn't have quite the same feel.
Depending on how many categories you had, you could try one of
the following
- create a specific URL in your urls.py for each of the handful
of known categories, putting them the before the catch-all URL
that treats it like usernames. This would prevent users from
having a username like "premium" or "economy"...for better or
worse :)
- similar to the first, but accomodating data-driven categories,
you could dispatch to a view that first tries to find a matching
category and then falls back to a user-name...something like
def view_whatever(request, target):
try:
cat = Category.objects.get(name=target)
return view_category(request, cat)
except:
user = User.objects.get(username=target)
return view_user(request, user)
- create a different URL like your describe, though dislike for
"not having quite the same feel"
- provide a setup where example.com/users/ is the URL of the
*collection* of users rather than the individual users, and then
takes GET parameters for filtering/sorting, so you could have
example.com/users/?cat=bigbucks
example.com/users/?cat=premium
example.com/users/?cat=economy
example.com/users/?cat=cheapskate
This last one also makes it nicely accessible from <form>
elements if you need.
Just my meandering thoughts on the matter.
-tim
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