How to use namespace urls with django in a reusuable app

Question

I have a django app, a forum app, that has templates with it. In those templates, there are urls that point to parts of the app. For instance the thread_list template has li

Answer 1

This might be a simple syntax error. I was following the Django Tutorial, and I changed mysite/urls.py improperly. The original syntax:

url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),

The desired change:

url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),

What I did:

url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls'), namespace="polls"),

Correcting the syntax resolved the issue.

Answer 2

From what I can gather you should be able use {% url forum:thread thread %} as you've described. Namespaces always seem to be defined with two variables, namespace and app_name.

If you then do the following in urls.py:

url(r'^/forum/', include('forum.urls', namespace='forum', app_name='forum')),
url(r'^/foo/', include('forum.urls', namespace='foo', app_name='forum')),
url(r'^/bar/', include('forum.urls', namespace='bar', app_name='forum')),

In my understanding, this defines 3 instances of the app 'forum', 'foo', 'bar', and the default (which has namespace==app_name).

When you reverse forum:thread, it uses the current context to determine which one to use- if you are in namespace 'foo' it will use that, otherwise it will fall back on the default.

If anyone is able to clarify how Django decides what the 'current' namespace/app is that would be very helpful. I currently categorise it as 'black magic'.

Some clarification on the actual difference between namespace and app_name would also be helpful- it's possible that I have this totally reversed. The current docs are highly ambiguous.

Note: I have this working for initial requests, but I'm currently unable to make this work for AJAX requests- those always use the default instance for some reason.

Answer 3

based on my understanding of this question:

in Django 2.1.7

• You can app name in app's urls.py file

# app's urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views

app_name = 'forum'
urlpatterns = [
    path('thread/', views.mark_done, name='thread')
]

in main urls.py

# urls.py
....

urlpatterns = [
    path('forum/', include('forum.urls')),
]

then you can employ {% url 'forum:thread' %} in your template

• If you wanna use it in a for loop

I think we should

1. create a view return all threads as context
2. then add a path to that view

...
path('thread/<int:pk>', views.mark_done, name='thread')

the url in template will like:

{% for thread in threads %}
    <a href="{% url 'forum:thread' thread.id %}">{{thread.title}}</a>
{% endfor %}