Question

I have an issue where I need to pass in query parameters for a GET request, but Django is not resolving the URL correctly to the view.

My urls.py looks like this:

   from django.conf.urls.defaults import * 
   urlpatterns = patterns('',
       url(r'^confirm_cancel',
          'myapp.views.confirm_cancel_method',
           name='myapp_confirm_cancel'),
       )

When I goto /confirm_cancel?some_id=x I get a 404, telling me “No MyModel matches query.” When I set a breakpoint in my view handler, it does not get hit when I goto that url.

However, if I goto /confirm_cancel/x/, my view breakpoint does get hit.

One more thing to note, this worked in Django 1.1, but is now broken since I upgraded to 1.2.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I had copied out all the other url patterns in the urls.py in my post.

Turns out that the issue was that I had a r'^(?P<my_id>\w+)/?$' for one of the urls at the top of the urlpatterns.

Next time I’ll learn to paste everything instead of cherry picking what I think are the offending lines of code.

Strange that this did not cause Django 1.1 to break… I guess it was a bug that was fixed in 1.2