Question

I have found this code which enables routes in Bottle to be stored in a similar way to Django:

from bottle import route

# Assuming your *_page view functions are defined above somewhere
urlpatterns = (
    # (path, func, name)
    ('/', home_page, 'home'),
    ('/about', about_page, 'about'),
    ('/contact', contact_page, 'contact'),
)

for path, func, name in urlpatterns:
    route(path, name=name)(func)

I’m trying to get the name passed to the page view functions. Having gone through the source code of Bottle I cannot see how name can be sent to the function or even why it is used if it cannot be sent.

Answer 1

The name is used to reference other pages (e.g. for app.get_url). The name of the current request callback is available through request['bottle.route'].name. Besides, you can use the route(..., callback=...) argument to avoid the double-call of the decorator.