Javascript url handling for Django that doesn't hurt.

Django JS Reverse is a small django app that makes url handling of named urls in javascript easy and none annoying.

For example you can retrieve a named url:

urls.py:

url(r'^/betterliving/(?P<category_slug>[-\w]+)/(?P<entry_pk>\d+)/$', 'get_house', name='betterliving_get_house'),

in javascript like:

Urls.betterliving_get_house('house', 12)

Result:

/betterliving/house/12/

• Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.3)
• Django (1.4, 1.5)

Install using pip ...

pip install django-js-reverse

... or clone the project from github.

git clone [email protected]:version2/django-js-reverse.git

Add 'django_js_reverse' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'django_js_reverse',        
)

Include none-cached view ...

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^jsreverse/$', 'django_js_reverse.views.urls_js', name='js_reverse'),
)

... or a cached one that delivers the urls javascript

from django_js_reverse.views import urls_js
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^jsreverse/$', cache_page(3600)(urls_js), name='js_reverse'),
)

Include javascript in your template

<script src="{% url js_reverse %}" type="text/javascript"></script>

Optional you can overwrite the default javascript variable 'Urls' used to access the named urls by django setting

JS_REVERSE_JS_VAR_NAME = 'Urls'

If your url names are valid javascript identifiers ([$A-Z_][\dA-Z_$]*)i you can access them by the Dot notation:

Urls.betterliving_get_house('house', 12)

If the named url contains invalid identifiers use the Square bracket notation instead:

Urls['betterliving-get-house']('house', 12)

MIT

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Enjoy!