How to get the url path of a view function in django

Question

As an example:

view.py

def view1( request ):
    return HttpResponse( \"just a test...\" )

urls.py

urlpatterns = patter         


        

Answer 1

Yes, of course you can get the url path of view named 'view1' without hard-coding the url.

All you need to do is - just import the 'reverse' function from Django urlresolvers.

Just look at the below example code:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def some_redirect_fun(request):

    return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('view-name'))

Answer 2

This depends whether you want to get it, if you want to get the url in a view(python code) you can use the reverse function(documentation):

reverse('admin:app_list', kwargs={'app_label': 'auth'})

And if want to use it in a template then you can use the url tag (documentation):

{% url 'path.to.some_view' v1 v2 %}

Answer 3

You can use the reverse function for this. You could specify namespaces and names for url-includes and urls respectively, to make refactoring easier.

Answer 4

If you want the url of the view1 into the view1 the best is request.get_path()

Answer 5

Universal approach

0. install Django extensions and add it to INSTALLED_APPS

1. Generate a text file with all URLs with corresponding view functions

./manage.py show_urls --format pretty-json --settings=<path-to-settings> > urls.txt

like

./manage.py show_urls --format pretty-json --settings=settings2.testing > urls.txt

2. Look for your URL in the output file urls.txt

    {
        "url": "/v3/blockdocuments/<pk>/",
        "module": "api.views.ganeditor.BlockDocumentViewSet",
        "name": "block-documents-detail",
    },

Answer 6

You need reverse.

from django.urls import reverse

reverse('app1.view.view1')

If you want to find out URL and redirect to it, use redirect

from django.urls import redirect 

redirect('app1.view.view1')

If want to go further and not to hardcode your view names either, you can name your URL patterns and use these names instead.