Django - using reverse() on Class-based views

Question

I have the following urls configuration in my Django project:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^my-view$', MyViewClass.as_view()),
)

Is there a way to use the reverse() function to get the url of the above view?

Answer 1

Yes there is.

Use the name argument of the url function to define a name for the url, then you can use reverse on this name:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^my-view$', MyViewClass.as_view(), name='my_view'),
)

reverse('my_view')