[Django]-Recursive URL routing in Django

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I would use a common URL pattern for all those URLs.

url(r'^query/([\w/]*)/$', 'app.views.view_with_query'),

You would receive all the “tag/sometag/or/tag/other/and/year/2013” as a param for the view.

Then, you can parse the param and extract the info (tag, value, tag, value, year, value) to make the query.

👤jordiburgos

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update 2021

django.conf.urls.url is deprecated in version 3.1 and above. Here is the solution for recursive url routing in django:

urls.py

from django.urls import path, re_path
from .views import index


urlpatterns = [
    re_path(r'^query/([\w/]*)/$', index, name='index'),
]

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render, HttpResponse


# Create your views here.
def index(request, *args, **kwargs):
    print('-----')
    print(args)
    print(kwargs)
    return HttpResponse('<h1>hello world</h1>')

If I call python manage.py run server, and go to ‘http://127.0.0.1:8000/query/nice/’, I can see these in terminal:

-----
('nice',)
{}
👤Weilory

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I know this is an old question but for those who reach here in future, starting from django 2.0+, you can use path converter with path to match the path in the url:

# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    path('query/<path:p>/', views.query, name='query'),
]

# views.py
def query(request, p):
    # here, p = "tag/sometag/or/tag/other/and/year/2013"
    ...
👤AcaNg

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