Re: URL dispatcher fallthrough?

2013-03-28 Thread meric
In this mailing list alone, Michael, Tom, David, Felipe, julianb, Ian and I have all proposed different solutions. 7 different solutions to what appears to be a very common problem. :( Tom: As you said the get_instance_or_404 only works for simple cases. The switcher view only works if the

Re: URL dispatcher fallthrough?

2013-03-27 Thread meric
Tom, you're right about the second and third points though. If the user perform any operation with side effect that requires writing to the database before the view checks whether the keyword arguments are appropriate and decide to raise DoesNotResolve, it can definitely be a source of

Re: URL dispatcher fallthrough?

2013-03-27 Thread meric
Hi Tom, interested to see why you think a single wrapping view is a reasonable alternative for the example I showed above, where you have following list of URLs: // # front page for country // / # list of schools and companies with activities in that industry, in that country /// # list of

Re: Proposal for allowing dynamic site based on domain name WITHOUT changing settings.SITE_ID.

2013-03-26 Thread meric
I've just read the previous discussion and I now have the same conclusion as yours - the optional request argument doesn't provide much the user can't do easily anyway. They can always make a custom function to grab the site based on the request. The value of Site.objects.get_current() as you

Re: What can I do to get feedback on my pull request?

2013-03-26 Thread meric
Is the 'vote' a majority or a consensus must be achieved? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

Re: URL dispatcher fallthrough?

2013-03-25 Thread meric
Previous discussion (which I've read before): https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16774 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: What can I do to get feedback on my pull request?

2013-03-25 Thread meric
What action, if any, do you suggest I take now? On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:42:11 PM UTC+11, Ramiro Morales wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:36 AM, meric <meri...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > Thanks, I'll reply to that thread. I posted my proposal 6 months before >

Re: URL dispatcher fallthrough?

2013-03-25 Thread meric
I've previously raised this idea and created a pull request. https://github.com/django/django/pull/378 The problem with creating with a catch all view: You have following models: Country, Industry, Company, School. You want to have the following kinds of urls: // // / /// /// / /

Re: What can I do to get feedback on my pull request?

2013-03-25 Thread meric
Thanks, I'll reply to that thread. I posted my proposal 6 months before that post, would've been nice if they posted in my thread... On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:33:14 PM UTC+11, Ramiro Morales wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:28 AM, meric <meri...@gmail.com > > wrote:

What can I do to get feedback on my pull request?

2013-03-25 Thread meric
I have made a pull request for django 6 months ago, but it doesn't seem to be getting much response so far. What can I do to get more feedback as to what's wrong with it, and try to get it accepted? Here is the pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/378 -- You received this

Proposal for allowing dynamic site based on domain name WITHOUT changing settings.SITE_ID.

2013-03-25 Thread meric
Previous discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/django-developers/dynamic$20sites/django-developers/QSXLGSxy7Vk/TxgiJzz5nd8J https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16983 https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4438 My proposal allows getting the current site based on

Re: #16774 Backtracking URL resolver

2012-09-17 Thread meric
The ticket page is here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16774 I previously said people trying to resolve URLs in their code may have difficulty because the DoesNotResolve exception is not raised until the view is run. Just now I thought how it would be done. I think changing

#16774 Backtracking URL resolver

2012-09-12 Thread meric
Hi, I looked at https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16774 and decided to implement the feature where views can raise urlresolvers.DoesNotResolve to make URL Resolver to keep searching for a URL. The diff is here: https://github.com/meric/django/compare/ticket_16774 It introduces a new