Django URL configuration

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I have a purchase page, it can take an optional argument as a gift, if it is a gift, the view passes a gift form to the template and if not, a regular purchase form.

my old regular url, which redirects to two seperate views:

(r'^(?P<item>[-\w]+)/purchase/$', 'purchase_view'),
(r'^(?P<item>[-\w]+)/purchase/gift$', 'gift_view'),

and the views was like this:

def purchase_view(request,item):
....use purchase form

def gift_view(request,item):
....use giftform

It is a bad design indeed, as both views having are almost everything same but the forms used.

I have also thougt about using GET and giving gift as a GET param however it wasnt a good idea as I am using POST method for these pages, especially would cause issue after validation.

How can I make this a single url and a single view?

Thanks

ironfroggy · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-27 01:32:49Z

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`urls.py`

url(r'^(?P<item>[-\w]+)/purchase/$', 'purchase_view', name='purchase_view'),
url(r'^(?P<item>[-\w]+)/purchase/(?P<gift>gift)/$', 'purchase_view', name='gift_view'),

`views.py`

def purchase_view(request, item, gift=False):
    if gift:
        form = GiftForm
    else:
        form = PurchaseForm
    ...

answered Feb 27, 2010 at 1:32

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