Commit a2bcec34 authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Fixed #17707, #20734 -- Added examples to URL namespacing docs.

Thanks Daniele Procida for review.
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@@ -2519,6 +2519,7 @@ own ``AdminSite`` instance since you will likely be importing all the per-app
put ``'django.contrib.admin.apps.SimpleAdminConfig'`` instead of
``'django.contrib.admin'`` in your :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` setting.

.. _multiple-admin-sites:

Multiple admin sites in the same URLconf
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@@ -578,11 +578,21 @@ URL namespaces
Introduction
------------

When you need to deploy multiple instances of a single application, it can be
helpful to be able to differentiate between instances. This is especially
important when using :ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>`, since
multiple instances of a single application will share named URLs. Namespaces
provide a way to tell these named URLs apart.
URL namespaces allow you to uniquely reverse :ref:`named URL patterns
<naming-url-patterns>` even if different applications use the same URL names.
It's a good practice for third-party apps to always use namespaced URLs (as we
did in the tutorial). Similarly, it also allows you to reverse URLs if multiple
instances of an application are deployed. In other words, since multiple
instances of a single application will share named URLs, namespaces provide a
way to tell these named URLs apart.

Django applications that make proper use of URL namespacing can be deployed more
than once for a particular site. For example :mod:`django.contrib.admin` has an
:class:`~django.contrib.admin.AdminSite` class which allows you to easily
:ref:`deploy more than once instance of the admin <multiple-admin-sites>`.
In a later example, we'll discuss the idea of deploying the polls application
from the tutorial in two different locations so we can serve the same
functionality to two different audiences (authors and publishers).

A URL namespace comes in two parts, both of which are strings:

@@ -598,44 +608,43 @@ A URL namespace comes in two parts, both of which are strings:
    This identifies a specific instance of an application. Instance namespaces
    should be unique across your entire project. However, an instance namespace
    can be the same as the application namespace. This is used to specify a
    default instance of an application. For example, the default Django Admin
    default instance of an application. For example, the default Django admin
    instance has an instance namespace of ``'admin'``.

Namespaced URLs are specified using the ``':'`` operator. For example, the main
index page of the admin application is referenced using ``'admin:index'``. This
indicates a namespace of ``'admin'``, and a named URL of ``'index'``.

Namespaces can also be nested. The named URL ``'foo:bar:whiz'`` would look for
a pattern named ``'whiz'`` in the namespace ``'bar'`` that is itself defined
within the top-level namespace ``'foo'``.
Namespaces can also be nested. The named URL ``'sports:polls:index'`` would
look for a pattern named ``'index'`` in the namespace ``'polls'`` that is itself
defined within the top-level namespace ``'sports'``.

.. _topics-http-reversing-url-namespaces:

Reversing namespaced URLs
-------------------------

When given a namespaced URL (e.g. ``'myapp:index'``) to resolve, Django splits
the fully qualified name into parts, and then tries the following lookup:
When given a namespaced URL (e.g. ``'polls:index'``) to resolve, Django splits
the fully qualified name into parts and then tries the following lookup:

1. First, Django looks for a matching :term:`application namespace` (in this
   example, ``'myapp'``). This will yield a list of instances of that
   example, ``'polls'``). This will yield a list of instances of that
   application.

2. If there is a *current* application defined, Django finds and returns
   the URL resolver for that instance. The *current* application can be
   specified as an attribute on the template context - applications that
   expect to have multiple deployments should set the ``current_app``
   attribute on any ``Context`` or ``RequestContext`` that is used to
   render a template.
   attribute on any :class:`~django.template.Context` or
   :class:`~django.template.RequestContext` that is used to render a template.

   The current application can also be specified manually as an argument
   to the :func:`django.core.urlresolvers.reverse` function.
   to the :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse` function.

3. If there is no current application. Django looks for a default
   application instance. The default application instance is the instance
   that has an :term:`instance namespace` matching the :term:`application
   namespace` (in this example, an instance of the ``myapp`` called
   ``'myapp'``).
   namespace` (in this example, an instance of ``polls`` called ``'polls'``).

4. If there is no default application instance, Django will pick the last
   deployed instance of the application, whatever its instance name may be.
@@ -652,37 +661,73 @@ Example
~~~~~~~

To show this resolution strategy in action, consider an example of two instances
of ``myapp``: one called ``'foo'``, and one called ``'bar'``. ``myapp`` has a
main index page with a URL named ``'index'``. Using this setup, the following
lookups are possible:
of the ``polls`` application from the tutorial: one called ``'author-polls'``
and one called ``'publisher-polls'``. Assume we have enhanced that application
so that it takes the instance namespace into consideration when creating and
displaying polls.

* If one of the instances is current - say, if we were rendering a utility page
  in the instance ``'bar'`` - ``'myapp:index'`` will resolve to the index page
  of the instance ``'bar'``.
.. snippet::
    :filename: urls.py

* If there is no current instance - say, if we were rendering a page
  somewhere else on the site - ``'myapp:index'`` will resolve to the last
  registered instance of ``myapp``. Since there is no default instance,
  the last instance of ``myapp`` that is registered will be used. This could
  be ``'foo'`` or ``'bar'``, depending on the order they are introduced into the
  urlpatterns of the project.
    from django.conf.urls import include, url

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^author-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='author-polls', app_name='polls')),
        url(r'^publisher-polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='publisher-polls', app_name='polls')),
    ]

.. snippet::
    :filename: polls/urls.py

    from django.conf.urls import url

    from . import views

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
        url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
        ...
    ]

Using this setup, the following lookups are possible:

* If one of the instances is current - say, if we were rendering the detail page
  in the instance ``'author-polls'`` - ``'polls:index'`` will resolve to the
  index page of the ``'author-polls'`` instance; i.e. both of the following will
  result in ``"/author-polls/"``.

  In the method of a class-based view::

    reverse('polls:index', current_app=self.request.resolver_match.namespace)

* ``'foo:index'`` will always resolve to the index page of the instance
  ``'foo'``.
  and in the template:

If there was also a default instance - i.e., an instance named ``'myapp'`` - the
following would happen:
  .. code-block:: html+django

    {% url 'polls:index' %}

  Note that reversing in the template requires the ``current_app`` be added as
  an attribute to the template context like this::

* If one of the instances is current - say, if we were rendering a utility page
  in the instance ``'bar'`` - ``'myapp:index'`` will resolve to the index page
  of the instance ``'bar'``.
    def render_to_response(self, context, **response_kwargs):
        response_kwargs['current_app'] = self.request.resolver_match.namespace
        return super(DetailView, self).render_to_response(context, **response_kwargs)

* If there is no current instance - say, if we were rendering a page somewhere
  else on the site - ``'myapp:index'`` will resolve to the index page of the
  default instance.
* If there is no current instance - say, if we were rendering a page
  somewhere else on the site - ``'polls:index'`` will resolve to the last
  registered instance of ``polls``. Since there is no default instance
  (instance namespace of ``'polls'``), the last instance of ``polls`` that is
  registered will be used. This would be ``'publisher-polls'`` since it's
  declared last in the ``urlpatterns``.

* ``'author-polls:index'`` will always resolve to the index page of the instance
  ``'author-polls'`` (and likewise for ``'publisher-polls'``) .

* ``'foo:index'`` will again resolve to the index page of the instance
  ``'foo'``.
If there were also a default instance - i.e., an instance named ``'polls'`` -
the only change from above would be in the case where there is no current
instance (the second item in the list above). In this case ``'polls:index'``
would resolve to the index page of the default instance instead of the instance
declared last in ``urlpatterns``.

.. _namespaces-and-include:

@@ -693,17 +738,17 @@ URL namespaces of included URLconfs can be specified in two ways.

Firstly, you can provide the :term:`application <application namespace>` and
:term:`instance <instance namespace>` namespaces as arguments to
:func:`django.conf.urls.include()` when you construct your URL patterns. For
:func:`~django.conf.urls.include()` when you construct your URL patterns. For
example,::

    url(r'^help/', include('apps.help.urls', namespace='foo', app_name='bar')),
    url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='author-polls', app_name='polls')),

This will include the URLs defined in ``apps.help.urls`` into the
:term:`application namespace` ``'bar'``, with the :term:`instance namespace`
``'foo'``.
This will include the URLs defined in ``polls.urls`` into the
:term:`application namespace` ``'polls'``, with the :term:`instance namespace`
``'author-polls'``.

Secondly, you can include an object that contains embedded namespace data. If
you ``include()`` a list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url` instances,
you ``include()`` a list of :func:`~django.conf.urls.url` instances,
the URLs contained in that object will be added to the global namespace.
However, you can also ``include()`` a 3-tuple containing::

@@ -713,26 +758,27 @@ For example::

    from django.conf.urls import include, url

    from app.helps import views
    from . import views

    help_patterns = [
        url(r'^basic/$', views.basic),
        url(r'^advanced/$', views.advanced),
    polls_patterns = [
        url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
        url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
    ]

    url(r'^help/', include((help_patterns, 'bar', 'foo'))),
    url(r'^polls/', include((polls_patterns, 'polls', 'author-polls'))),

This will include the nominated URL patterns into the given application and
instance namespace.

For example, the Django Admin is deployed as instances of
For example, the Django admin is deployed as instances of
:class:`~django.contrib.admin.AdminSite`.  ``AdminSite`` objects have a ``urls``
attribute: A 3-tuple that contains all the patterns in the corresponding admin
site, plus the application namespace ``'admin'``, and the name of the admin
instance. It is this ``urls`` attribute that you ``include()`` into your
projects ``urlpatterns`` when you deploy an Admin instance.
projects ``urlpatterns`` when you deploy an admin instance.

Be sure to pass a tuple to ``include()``. If you simply pass three arguments:
``include(help_patterns, 'bar', 'foo')``, Django won't throw an error but due
to the signature of ``include()``, ``'bar'`` will be the instance namespace and
``'foo'`` will be the application namespace instead of vice versa.
``include(polls_patterns, 'polls', 'author-polls')``, Django won't throw an
error but due to the signature of ``include()``, ``'polls'`` will be the
instance namespace and ``'author-polls'`` will be the application namespace
instead of vice versa.