Question

I’d like to use url arguments in views (not templates, I know how to do that).

So is it possible to use them like:

def item_link(self, item):
    return mainpage_url_name + "%s/%i" % (item.slug, item.cid)

mainpage_url_name – is of course defined in url patterns (as name variable)

I’m a total newb in Django…

Thanks

Answer 1

First you should use names for your url patterns as documented here.

Then you can use reverse() to use these names in your views or methods.

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Following your comments you are using the syndication framework.

Therefore you should make sure that you define get_absolute_url() for you models, ideally using the permalink decorator (for a clean reversing of your urls).

Looking at the example from Django’s docs that should be all that’s necessary.

To specify the contents of <link>, you
have two options. For each item in
items(), Django first tries calling
the item_link() method on the Feed
class. In a similar way to the title
and description, it is passed it a
single parameter, item. If that method
doesn’t exist, Django tries executing
a get_absolute_url() method on that
object.