Hyphenated (dash) url in TG 1.0

[sams...@gmail.com]

How do I get a url with a dash in it in TG 1.0?

Thanks...

[Sam]

No one knows how to do this? :) Or have I just not been very
clear...

So what I want is a url like http://www.example.com/foo-bar

but obviously...

@expose()
def foo-bar(self):

Doesn't play well with Python....

So how do I do it?

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Sam schrieb:

> No one knows how to do this? :) Or have I just not been very
> clear...
>
> So what I want is a url like http://www.example.com/foo-bar
>
> but obviously...
>
> @expose()
> def foo-bar(self):
>
> Doesn't play well with Python....
>
> So how do I do it?

I don't think it's possible with CherryPy (TG1). You can use an '_' as a
replacement for a '.', but there is no replacement char for '-', '+' or
'$'. Maybe you can suggest something on the CherryPy mailing list.

As a workaround, you can do this:

@expose()
def default(self, method):
if method == 'foo-bar':
...
else:
raise HTTPNotFound

Or, you can implement it as fooBar and then use an Apache alias or
rewrite to map foo-bar to fooBar.

In TG2, you would be also able to use routes.

-- Christoph

[Nick Murdoch]

I came across this problem a while ago and ended up with something
like this:

class MyController(controllers.Controller):
def i_want_dashes(self):
...

setattr(MyController, 'i-want-dashes', MyController.i_want_dashes)


Dispatching to other methods using default sounds good too; I guess
the rest is personal preference.

Cheers,

Nick

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Nick Murdoch schrieb:

> I came across this problem a while ago and ended up with something
> like this:
>
> class MyController(controllers.Controller):
> def i_want_dashes(self):
> ...
>
> setattr(MyController, 'i-want-dashes', MyController.i_want_dashes)

Oh, that's really nice and simple! I hadn't thought that Python would
allow you to do that, but actually why not.

-- Christoph

[Kevin Horn]

Wow, that _is_ cool.  I guess Python doesn't care if an attribute has dashes, as long as you never have to use an identifier to reference it.

very groovy

Kevin Horn

[Jorge Vargas]

Got to love python :)

nice hack.