Question

Essentially I have a single view that accepts different operations and a varying number of parameters. This was previously working in the following state:

url(r'^items/(?P<op>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)$', login_required(ItemOpView.as_view()), name='my.views.item_op'),

Which always provides kwargs['op'] and kwargs['id'] to the view. This allows for URLs such as:

• items/delete/1
• items/show/1
• items/hide/1

However I’d like to adapt the rule to also accept the following:

• items/relocate/1/2 meaning I’d like to have kwargs['id2'] as well.

I’ve attempted to do this with the rule:

url(r'^items/(?P<op>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)(?/)(?P<id2>[0-9]+)$', login_required(ItemOpView.as_view()), name='my.views.item_op'),

However this doesn’t work and just gives a 404.

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

Just add another url entry like so:

url(r'^items/(?P<op>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/(?P<id2>[0-9]+)$', login_required(ItemOpView.as_view()), name='my.views.item_op')

And make sure your view accepts a default parameter (like None) for the second parameter.