Url tag first argument should be able to be a context variable

[Øyvind Saltvik <oyvind@…>]

If the first view/name argument to the url tag used a context var it would be easier to reuse in inculded templates

I have two views that takes the same kwargs i could do

{% with "someview" as myview %}
{% url myview slug=object.slug %}
{% endwith %}

Instead of writing the same code twice.

So:

{% url "someview" slug=object.slug %}

{% url myview slug=object.slug %}

Would mean the same thing

[Chris Beaven]

Maybe it's useful, but it breaks the templates for anyone who has used {% url %} thusfar. If that's acceptable, then we should move this to accepted.

[Philippe Raoult]

It would be very useful, though a clean implementation would require having a separate url_var tag that does what you ask.

[Philippe Raoult]

changed url to accept vars and quoted strings for the first argument (view path)

[Philippe Raoult]

as per discussion with devs on #django-sprint, my patch changes the url tag behavior (backward incompatible). Regression tests seem ok.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This seems to be identical to what #3769 requested, so marking as a dupe (it's a massive backwards incompatible change, so would need django-dev sign-off before we implemented it).