#34461 closed New feature (wontfix)
Constructing urls outside the request cycle
| Reported by: | Sarah Boyce | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Core (Other) | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Florian Apolloner, David Sanders, Stewart Adam | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
There is a need to have some kind of URL outside the request cycle (such as sending emails which need to create a link).
For constructing a correct MEDIA_URL / STATIC_URL we wanted to use the script prefix to allow for more dynamic changes (ie allow a user to move to a subpath without having to change multiple variables). In the request cycle you can use get_script_prefix() for this but outside the request cycle this isn't currently very achievable (see related tickets #34028 #16734).
There is a current proposal from Florian Apolloner
I am really starting to lean towards introducing a setting (yes!) called
BASE_URLthat can be set tohttps://mysite.com/subpath. This would allow for a) generating URLs outside a request context and b) allow us to mostly ignore script prefix. We could also use a relativeSTATIC_URLand append it toBASE_URL. This way there would be just one setting that requires changing and many projects hopefully would make that configurable via env vars etc.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 19 months ago
| Cc: | added |
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| Component: | Uncategorized → Core (Other) |
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 19 months ago
Sorry 👍 moved to here: https://groups.google.com/g/django-developers/c/YzRj7OXpLkk
Thanks for the ticket. Creating a new setting is always controversial (we already have many of them) so please first start a discussion on the DevelopersMailingList, where you'll reach a wider audience and see what other think, and follow the guidelines with regards to requesting features.