capturing url pattern from html forms

[Mel DeJesus]

Hi - 

If the number '1' is submitted with the form below, the following url is created:  http://localhost:8000/item/?id=1

But I continually get a page not found.  How can I style the regex in the urlpatterns so that this url registers?  Thanks. 

<form id="form" form action = "item/" method="get">

Item Name:<br>

<input id="entry" type="text" name="id"><br>

<br><br>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</form>

I'm attempting to capture here: 

urlpatterns = [

# Examples:

url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

# url(r'^item\/\?id=(?P<id>\d+)/', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),

url(r'^item/(?P<id>\d+)/', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),

# JSON files

[Daniel Roseman]

GET parameters are not captured in URL patterns. Just accept `^item/$` and get the data inside the view via `request.GET['id']`.

-- 

DR. 

[Mel DeJesus]

Awesome, thanks!

Following your suggestion, I went to views and I assigned the request.GET['id'] to a variable and was able to use it! 

[Mel DeJesus]

Unfortunately, I didn't show my entire URLpatterns list, and the ^item/$  seems to interfere with the ^$ of the previous:  Any suggestions for a work around? thanks again. 

from django.conf.urls import include, url

from django.contrib import admin

from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns

from durham_app import views

urlpatterns = [

# Examples:

url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),

url(r'^item/$', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),

url(r'^items/', views.ItemList.as_view()),

]

urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 3:41:16 PM UTC-4, Daniel Roseman wrote:

[James Schneider]

On Sep 23, 2017 1:27 PM, "Mel DeJesus" <meldej...@gmail.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, I didn't show my entire URLpatterns list, and the ^item/$  seems to interfere with the ^$ of the previous:  Any suggestions for a work around? thanks again. 

from django.conf.urls import include, url

from django.contrib import admin

from rest_framework.urlpatterns import format_suffix_patterns

from durham_app import views

urlpatterns = [

# Examples:

url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),

url(r'^item/$', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),

url(r'^items/', views.ItemList.as_view()),

]

urlpatterns = format_suffix_patterns(urlpatterns)

There isn't really a reason that any of those URL patterns would interfere with each other. I'd change the last one to r'items/$', but otherwise they look fine.

What do you mean by 'interfere'?

-James

[Mel DeJesus]

When I try to go to index.html, I get: 

Exception Type:

NoReverseMatch

Exception Value:

Reverse for 'item_detail' with arguments '(1, 1)' not found. 2 pattern(s) tried: [u'item\\.(?P<format>[a-z0-9]+)/?$', 'item/$'] My Views: def index(request): items = Item.objects.exclude(amount=0) return render(request, 'inventory/index.html',{ 'items': items, }) def item_detail(request): try: id=request.GET['id'] item = Item.objects.get(id=id) except Item.DoesNotExist: raise Http404("This item doesn't exist") return render(request, 'inventory/item_detail.html',{ 'item': item, }) index.html {%extends "base.html" %} {%block content%} <h3> Find An Item </h3>

<form id="form" form action = "item/" method="get"> Item Name:<br> <input id="entry" type="text" name="id"><br> <br><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>

<h2 id="output"></h2> {%endblock%}

[Mel DeJesus]

I found the problem - 

the key of the object that I was passing in the view's item_detail function's return render line was in quotes.  After removing the quotes, the problem went away.  I wonder why the quotes didn't post an issue before altering the url pattern.