url name to generic class-based views with parameters?

[Mark Stahler]

Can someone explain how to link using url names to class-based views
that include parameters?

Example:

url(r'^video/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', VideoView.as_view()),

works but all my links have to manually have "/video/{{ video.id }}/"
or similar. I cannot get {% url videos %}{{ video.id }} to work with
the following route for some reason.

url(r'^video/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', VideoView.as_view(), name='videos'),

I cant find anything in the documentation about this. Can anyone
explain?

[J. Cliff Dyer]

You need to use {% url videos video.id %} or {% url videos pk=video.id
%}

[Tom Evans]

Your URL takes a parameter, but you are not giving it one. Try:

{% url videos video.id %}

See:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/urls/#reverse

and:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/builtins/#url

Cheers

Tom

[Andre Terra]

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/?from=olddocs#url

# template.html
{% load url from future %}

<p>{% url videos pk=video.pk %}</p>


# ----------------------------

While we're at it, consider defining a more verbose name to the url, such as 'video-detail'. I personally like to map url names to an 'app-model-view' syntax, so you can do something like 'myapp-video-detail' and rename your 'VideoView' to 'VideoDetail'. Then later have 'myapp-video-list' routing to VideoList and so forth. This is also consistent with the generic class based views offered by Django and helps keeping your urls.py organized.



Cheers,
AT

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[Mark Stahler]

Aha, thanks guys. Very simple now that it was pointed out.