Calling Django `reverse` in client-side Javascript

Question

I\'m using Django on Appengine. I\'m using the django reverse() function everywhere, keeping everything as DRY as possible.

However, I\'m having trouble

Answer 1

I like Anatoly's idea, but I think using a specific integer is dangerous. I typically want to specify an say an object id, which are always required to be positive, so I just use negative integers as placeholders. This means adding -? to the the url definition, like so:

url(r'^events/(?P-?\d+)/$', events.views.event_details),

Then I can get the reverse url in a template by writing

{% url 'events.views.event_details' event_id=-1 %}

And use replace in javascript to replace the placeholder -1, so that in the template I would write something like

This easily extends to multiple arguments too, and the mapping for a particular argument is visible directly in the template.