Including a querystring in a django.core.urlresolvers reverse() call

Question

I\'m trying to reverse a named URL and include a querystring in it. Basically, I\'ve modified the login function, and I want to send ?next= in it.

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Answer 1

I think it's better to wrap Django's reverse method to expose this API. Here's some simple code to do it:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse as django_reverse

def reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None, prefix=None, current_app=None):
    """
    Wrapper of django.core.urlresolvers.reverse that attaches arguments in kwargs as query string parameters
    """
    if kwargs:
        return '%s?%s' % (django_reverse(viewname, urlconf, args, None, prefix, current_app), \
                        '&'.join(['%s=%s' % (k,v) for k,v in kwargs.items()]))
    else:
        return django_reverse(viewname, urlconf, args, kwargs, prefix, current_app)

Put this code into some utility or common app that only depends on Django, then instead of importing django.core.urlresolvers.reverse just import myproject.myutils.urlresolvers.reverse