Opened 16 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#7537 closed New feature (invalid)

Make RegexURLResolver easier to subclass

Reported by: Kenneth Arnold Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (URLs) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: url, urlpatterns, resolver
Cc: kenneth.arnold@…, eallik@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: yes Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Referencing the django-developers discussion, here's some simple patches to make the URL resolver easier to customize.

First is a nearly minimal patch to convert the url_patterns property to an accessor, get_url_patterns, to ease subclassing, and make the other methods use that consistently instead of duplicating its functionality. With only this patch you can make your own URL resolver without duplicating code, but it's still not clean.

The second patch cleans up the situation by abstracting the core functionality of a regex URL resolver into BaseRegexURLResolver.

The third patch is an example of how newforms-admin might use this for URL dispatching. I don't have a deep understanding about what's going on, so treat what I did just as an example. Perhaps the cleanest way to accomplish some of what the old ad-hoc resolver did is to override resolve, and if super().resolve returns None, do the ad-hoc stuff.

You'd use a custom resolver in your urlconf like this:

urlpatterns += [AdminSite(r'^admin/')]

i.e., like a normal include (at least, what that include looks like under the hood).

The newforms-admin change would be backwards-incompatible, so if people think it's a good idea, it should get a separate ticket.

About the accessor: properties don't inherit well. Could add a url_patterns = property(lambda self: self.get_url_patterns()) if that's not too ugly.

Attachments (3)

dj-urlresolver-patch2.patch (2.9 KB ) - added by Kenneth Arnold 16 years ago.
Patch 2: extract base functionality
dj-nfa-urlresolver.diff (5.2 KB ) - added by Kenneth Arnold 16 years ago.
Example nfa change (Example Only)
dj-urlresolver-patch1.patch (1.9 KB ) - added by Kenneth Arnold 16 years ago.
nearly minimal patch

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Change History (13)

by Kenneth Arnold, 16 years ago

Attachment: dj-urlresolver-patch2.patch added

Patch 2: extract base functionality

by Kenneth Arnold, 16 years ago

Attachment: dj-nfa-urlresolver.diff added

Example nfa change (Example Only)

comment:1 by Alex Gaynor, 16 years ago

Needs tests: set
Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

by Kenneth Arnold, 16 years ago

Attachment: dj-urlresolver-patch1.patch added

nearly minimal patch

comment:2 by Kenneth Arnold, 16 years ago

Cc: kenneth.arnold@… added

comment:3 by Erik Allik, 15 years ago

Cc: eallik@… added

comment:4 by Erik Allik, 15 years ago

Wouldn't this also solve the issue of not being able to reverse or {% url %} "into" the admin interface?

comment:5 by Alex Gaynor, 15 years ago

Yes, but so does #6470

comment:6 by Erik Allik, 15 years ago

I cannot see how. If #6470 was applied, would I be able to do {% url admin_edit_view mymodel %}?

comment:7 by Luke Plant, 13 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: New feature

comment:8 by Alex Gaynor, 13 years ago

Easy pickings: unset
Triage Stage: Design decision neededAccepted
UI/UX: unset

me of a few years ago was silly, any way to better organize the code is a good idea.

comment:9 by Aymeric Augustin, 11 years ago

Component: Core (Other)Core (URLs)

comment:10 by Mariusz Felisiak, 5 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

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