Case insensitive urls for Django?

Question

It seems by default django\'s url solver perform case sensitive search for solving url and differentiate between \'/Login\' and \'login\'. My url patterns are as follows.

Answer 1

You could also manage this from your view. For instance, if you have a generic.DetailView, you could override get_queryset method and set the slug value to lower case:

models.py:

from django.db import models
from django.utils.text import slugify


class MyModel(models.Model):
    """MyModel

    """  
    # name attribute is used to generate slug
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25, verbose_name='Name', unique=True)

    slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, verbose_name='Slug')

    # override save method to generate slug
    def save(self, force_insert=False, force_update=False, using=None,
             update_fields=None):
        self.slug = slugify(self.name)
        super(MyModel, self).save(force_insert=False, force_update=force_update, using=using, update_fields=update_fields)

views.py:

from django.views import generic


class MyModelDetailView(generic.DetailView):
    """MyModelDetailView

        Detail view of MyObject.
    """

    model = MyModel
    template_name = 'my_models/my_model_detail.html'

    def get_queryset(self):
        try:
            self.kwargs['slug'] = self.kwargs['slug'].lower()
        except Exception as err:
            print(err)
            pass

        queryset = self.model.objects.filter()
        return queryset

urls.py:

from . import views
from django.conf.urls import url

    url(r'^my_model_detail/(?P[-\w]+)/$', views.MyModelDetailView.as_view(),
        name='my_model_detail'),