Question

URL pattern declaration from views.py

url(r'^intentions/(\d+)/$', 'intentions.views.show'),

When I am writing address directly, like intentions/1 works ok, but when I trying to display URL show for object like:

{% for i in intentions %}
   {% url 'intentions.views.show' i.id as iUrl %}
    <li><a href="{{ iUrl }}">{{ i }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

I am ending with empty href. Could someone give me any advice?

Answer 1

If you are using Django 1.3 or 1.4, make sure you are loading the new url tag. Add the following line to the top of your template:

{% load url from future %}

If you are using Django 1.4 or earlier, and you haven’t loaded the new url tag as above, then you need to remove the single quotes from the url pattern:

{% url intentions.views.show i.id as iUrl %}

As an aside, it’s recommended to name your url pattern:

url(r'^intentions/(\d+)/$', 'intentions.views.show', name='show_intention'),

Then change your template to:

{% for i in intentions %}
  {% url 'show_intention' i.id as iUrl %}
  <li><a href="{{ iUrl }}">{{ i }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}