Calling Django `reverse` in client-side Javascript

Question

I\'m using Django on Appengine. I\'m using the django reverse() function everywhere, keeping everything as DRY as possible.

However, I\'m having trouble

Answer 1

One of the solutions I came with is to generate urls on backend and pass them to browser somehow.

It may not be suitable in every case, but I have a table (populated with AJAX) and clicking on a row should take the user to the single entry from this table.

(I am using django-restframework and Datatables).

Each entry from AJAX has the url attached:

class MyObjectSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    url = SerializerMethodField()
    # other elements

    def get_url(self, obj):
       return reverse("get_my_object", args=(obj.id,))

on loading ajax each url is attached as data attribute to row:

var table = $('#my-table').DataTable({
   createdRow: function ( row, data, index ) {
      $(row).data("url", data["url"])
   }
});

and on click we use this data attribute for url:

table.on( 'click', 'tbody tr', function () {
  window.location.href = $(this).data("url");
} );