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Jacob Kaplan-Moss

More options Apr 7 2006, 8:47 am

From: Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org>

Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:47:16 -0500

Local: Fri, Apr 7 2006 8:47 am

Subject: Re: Reverse URL lookup implementation

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I just had another thought on this:

On Apr 6, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Adrian Holovaty wrote:

> Ideally there'd be a template-tag interface to this. Something like:

> {% link 'path.to.month_view' 2005 'apr' %}
> {% link 'path.to.person_view' state='il' name='adrian' %}

One thing we could do -- to make this even easier -- would be to grab
data from an object passed into the {% link %} tag. So in your
example urlconf::

(r'^people/(?P<state>\w\w)/(?P<name>\w+)/$', 'path.to.person_view'),

If a Person object had ``state`` and ``name`` attributes, you could do::

{% link path.to.person_view person %}

(where ``some_person`` is an object in the context) as a shortcut to::

{% link path.to.person_view state=person.state name=person.name %}

That way if you set up your URLconfs in a logical manner -- I'd bet
90% of my urlconfs already work this way -- the shortcut version
would Just Work™.

Jacob

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