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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:41:51+00:00

It’s clear how to create a URLPattern which dispatches from a URL regex: (r’^books/$’,

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It’s clear how to create a URLPattern which dispatches from a URL regex:

(r'^books/$', books),

where books can further dispatch on request method:

def books(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        ...
    else:
        ...

I’d like to know if there is an idiomatic way to include the request method inside the URLPattern, keeping all dispatch/route information in a single location, such as:

(r'^books/$', GET, retrieve-book),
(r'^books/$', POST, update-books),
(r'^books/$', PUT, create-books),
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  1. Editorial Team

    The reason it’s done as a single view method is that you’re usually rendering some kind of page content as context for the form you’re about to submit.

    Anyway, my reason for replying it this: from your sample URLConf there it looks like you’re building a REST webservice with Django — if this is the case, you might really benefit from using the rather good django-piston to automatically create your resources/collections. It uses class-based handlers that automatically redirect to the appropriate method (get-books, update-books, create-books in your case) based on the HTTP method in the request

    UPDATE (four years later!) while django-piston still exists (and works), Django REST Framework is a much more sophisticated, documented and extended choice these days.

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