Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#16101 closed New feature

SingleObjectMixin should accept parameters for overriding the URL keywords for pk and slug — at Initial Version

Reported by: AndrewIngram Owned by: nobody
Component: Generic views Version: 1.3
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Currently, in SingleObjectMixin, Django looks for a 'pk' or 'slug' keyword argument to use for looking up an instance of a model. You can override slug_field when the field on the model is something other than "slug". What you can't do is designate different URL keywords to use for these lookup, and to override this in a subclass the whole get_object method needs to be reimplemented.

My proposition is to have a 'pk_keyword' and 'slug_keyword' field on SingleObjectMixin which default to 'pk' and 'slug' respectively, but can easily be overridden.

Use case:

I have a product app with a URL like this:

/(r'(?P<item_class_slug>[\w-]+)/(?P<item_slug>[\w-]*)-(?P<pk>\d+)/$'

The view uses a subclass of DetailView with the pk keyword being used for fetching the product. But we also have optional product review URLs which are only included if the reviews app is installed, and are included like this:

url(r'(?P<item_class_slug>[\w-]+)/(?P<item_slug>[\w-]*)-(?P<pk>\d+)/', include(self.reviews_app.urls)),

Within the reviews URLs we have a review detail view which also uses DetailView, this means I end up with two pk keywords in the URLs. Now I could just use a different keyword for the product pk keyword for this include, but I prefer consistency in my URL patterns. I would rather use 'item_pk' and 'review_pk' in all cases, which I can't currently do.
I've had a look at the code and it seems like a straightforward change, I'm happy to submit the patch myself if this issue is accepted.

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