[Django] #33791: No Reverse Match and namespaced urls
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Reporter: Malik A. Rumi | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 4.0
Severity: Release blocker | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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There have been a lot of changes in the url syntax over the years, and I
am confused as to what the current syntax is supposed to be. For example,
I
distinctly recall that at one point we were to use the 'app:instance'
syntax in get_absolute_url(), but I see no reference to that in the
"https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/models/instances/#get-absolute-
url" docs for get_absolute_url().
I did find it on Stack Overflow,
"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9026024/django-get-absolute-url-and-
named-url-with-namespace" here.
Now although that question and answer are from 2012, note the comments
from 2016 and 2020 ''asking the **same** questions!!!.''
By the same token, the namespace kwargs has also changed dramatically,
from a straight namespace = myapp to a 2-tuple where the app name, but not
"namespace = " is used instead.
Clearly, we are confused, because these changes are **both** too frequent
**and** too subtle for us to keep up with.
Here is my feature request: A single, clean, and comprehensive explanation
in the docs that covers the relation between NoReverseMatch,
get_absolute_url(), namespaced urls, named urls, and God knows what else -
''on the same page'', or ''in the same document'' would be **extremely**
helpful, at least to those of us who are not working with Django every day
of our lives.
This may be a pointless aside, but what reasonable software development
philosophy undergirds all these frequent changes in the first place? In
other words, ''Why isn't the Django interface more stable?''
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33791>
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Reporter: Malik A. Rumi | Owner: nobody
Component: Documentation | Version: 4.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution: needsinfo
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Changes (by Tim Graham):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => needsinfo
* severity: Release blocker => Normal
Comment:
It's unclear how to proceed with this ticket when you haven't made any
critiques of the [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls
/#url-namespaces existing documentation] on the topic. Feel free to reopen
with some concrete suggestions. (Simply saying "document everything!" is
not really actionable.) Thanks.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33791#comment:1>