id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 2544 Pass variables from url handler to the query set of a generic view jon@… nobody "If would be nice if you could pass variables from the url regexp in urls.py to the filter of a query set when using generic views. {{{(r'^/?(?P\w+)/$', 'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', {'queryset': Item.objects.filter(name__name__iexact=person))}}} Currently, a statement similar to the following will fail with a NameError similar to the below: {{{ NameError at /dave/ name 'person' is not defined Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/dave/ Exception Type: NameError Exception Value: name 'dave' is not defined }}} The ideal behaviour would be that the filter function would be able to accept values from the url dispatcher. This ticket arises from [[http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/40c34ae87492d4dd/67cabff7abbbabe5#67cabff7abbbabe5 this]] discussion on django-users." enhancement closed Generic views normal invalid Design decision needed 0 0 0 0 0 0