[Django]-How to generate urls in django

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If you need to use something similar to the {% url %} template tag in your code, Django provides the django.core.urlresolvers.reverse(). The reverse function has the following signature:

reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/urlresolvers/

At the time of this edit the import is django.urls import reverse

👤Peter Hoffmann

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I’m using two different approaches in my models.py. The first is the permalink decorator:

from django.db.models import permalink

def get_absolute_url(self): 
    """Construct the absolute URL for this Item."""
    return ('project.app.views.view_name', [str(self.id)])
get_absolute_url = permalink(get_absolute_url)

You can also call reverse directly:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

def get_absolute_url(self): 
    """Construct the absolute URL for this Item."""
    return reverse('project.app.views.view_name', None, [str(self.id)])
👤Garth Kidd

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For Python3 and Django 2:

from django.urls import reverse

url = reverse('my_app:endpoint', kwargs={'arg1': arg_1})
👤juan Isaza

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Be aware that using reverse() requires that your urlconf module is 100% error free and can be processed – iow no ViewDoesNotExist errors or so, or you get the dreaded NoReverseMatch exception (errors in templates usually fail silently resulting in None).

👤zgoda

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