Documentation of use of template tags in forms

[Malik A. Rumi]

I'm wondering why both ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/class-based-views/mixins/#using-formmixin-with-detailview and ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/auth/default/ have no explicit discussion of the use of template tags, and the latter page only has a couple of one line examples? Other than that, you seem to be recommending the use of hard coded urls, which I thought was strange, but maybe has a purpose I am not aware of? Thx.

[Tim Graham]

I guess you're referring to an example like:

@permission_required('polls.can_vote', login_url='/loginpage/')

which instead could be something like (untested):

@permission_required('polls.can_vote', login_url=reverse_lazy('some-page-nam'`))

(I think you mixed up terminology in calling reverse() and reverse_lazy() "template tags"... probably you were thinking of the {% url %} tag.)

I don't know if we should try to avoid hardcoding URLs in all examples. It may make things a bit less readable. Nor am I sure if it's beneficial to mention everywhere a URL is accepted that you can also use reverse() to avoid hardcoding one. The topic of hardcoding URLs is discussed in the tutorial, so hopefully a Django user would remember that and not need a constant reminder.