Make the default value of slug_field be 'slug'

[trevor@…]

The default value for the parameter slug_field in the functions create_update.delete_object, create_update.delete_object, date_based.object_detail and list_detail.object_detail should be 'slug'. 'slug' is a common field name for SlugFields, and in case you choose that field name, your url configuration can be substantially simpler (for example, you can share the extra_context dict between an object_list and object_detail for the same table). There is little cost to making this the default, in order to enable slug-based matching, you will still have to pass a slug parameter.

[Chris Beaven]

Seems to make common sense. Yes?

[Adrian Holovaty]

Good idea! Could somebody include a patch, including changes to the documentation?

[Trevor Caira <trevor@…>]

Add default values to generic view parameters and update documentation

[Trevor Caira <trevor@…>]

Removed the explicit specification of slug_field from the urls.py of the weblog of the website

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

The second patch isn't worth applying, since it doesn't hurt to leave things as they are (and updating the website source is more involved than trunk). So this bug will be closed once the first patch goes in.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [5877]) Fixed #5085 -- In generic views, set the default name for the slug field to 'slug'. Thanks, Trevor Caira.