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25907	Alternative Way of Specifying URL Patterns	Sven R. Kunze	nobody	"Other frameworks (like MVC 5) provide an inline-way of specifying the URL pattern for a view.

Would it be possible to introduce such thing for Django?


Internally, we are working on something like this in order to accelerate development and maintenance for our production system.

Manually looking up URLs in the url.py and then jump to the actual view class is quite error-prone and tedious.


Internally, we evaluate two alternatives:

1) via class attribute: url
2) via decorator on class


{{{
# alternative 1
class ThingView(DetailView):
    url = '/thing(?P<pk>\d+)'
    template_name = 'thing.html'

# alternative 2
@url('/thing/(?P<pk>\d+)'):
class ThingView(DetailView):
    template_name = 'thing.html'
}}}
"	New feature	closed	Core (URLs)	dev	Normal	wontfix		tzanke@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0