Question

I am building an application using webapp2 in Google App Engine. How do I pass the username into the url so that when the profile button is clicked, it takes the user to “/profile/username” where “username” is specific to the user?

My current handlers:

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage),
                               ('/signup', Register),
                               ('/login', Login),
                               ('/logout', Logout),
                               ('/profile', Profile)
                               ],
                              debug=True)

the Profile class:

class Profile(BlogHandler):
    def get(self):
        email = self.request.get('email')
        product = self.request.get('product')
        product_list = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Post ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 10")
        self.render('profile.html', email = email, product = product, product_list = product_list)

I am trying to send each user to a Profile page that contains information in my database specific to them. Thanks

Answer 1

One possible solution would be to simply have one URL, i.e., /profile. The corresponding handler would render the response with data coming from the logged-in user.

If you really want to have URLs like /profile/username, you could define a route:

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage),
                               ('/signup', Register),
                               ('/login', Login), 
                               ('/logout', Logout),
                               ('r/profile/(\w+)', Profile)
                              ],
                              debug=True)

and access the username in your handler:

class Profile(BlogHandler):
    def get(self, username):

But depending on your application, you might want to make sure only the logged-in user has access to its /profile/username by adding a check somewhere in the handler.