Django custom url structure

Question

Is there any built-in or 3rd party app for custom styled urls?

I'd like to have custom urls such as: example.com/article-type/article-name-2015-24-12

Where article-type would be a created from a foreign key and at the end of the url there would be the published date.

And in templates I'd call them using {% url 'article' article.pk %}. (So in the future when my boss decides to change the url structure I don't have to change it everywhere)

Is there anything like that? If not could anyone kick me to the right direction how to implement a such feature?

Unless I am misunderstanding what you want - you can do this with just Django urls. But instead of {% url 'article' article.pk %} it would be something like {% url 'article' article.name article.date %} or better yet, have a slug on the Article model and make sure it is unique then you can just use the slug as such {% url 'article' article.slug %} — Jared Mackey
– Jared Mackey, Commented Apr 20, 2016 at 17:54

C14L · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-20 17:58:28Z

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You could build the URL on the model, overriding the get_absolute_url() method.

Something like this

def Something(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    slug = models.SlugField()
    created = models.DateTimeField()
    article_type = models.ForeignKey(ArticleTypes)

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return '/{}/{}-{}-{}-{}'.format(
            self.article_type, self.slug, self.created.year, 
            self.created.month, self.created.day)

And in the template, you'd use

<a href="{{ something.get_absolute_url }}">{{ something.name }}</a>

answered Apr 20, 2016 at 17:58

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