Django Rest API Url Pattern to handle . (dot) symbol

Question

Creating Django REST API, Need suggestions to handle the .(dot char) in the urlpatterns. Below is the example detail:

I have a Model (test) with name as one of the fields and name value is of format ABC.XYZ

Below URL pattern does not work when name = ABC.XYZ 

url(r'^tests/(?P<string>[\w\-]+)/$', views.tests.as_view(), name='api_tests_name')

willeM_ Van Onsem · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-09 18:05:09Z

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You can add the dot to the character group in the regex:

url(r'^tests/(?P<string>[\w\-.]+)/$', views.tests.as_view(), name='api_tests_name')

So now you make a request with tests/foo.bar/ as path for example.

answered Apr 9, 2020 at 18:05

willeM_ Van Onsem

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