Django snippets: A action decorator for URLs

A action decorator for URLs

def action(views):
    def _dec(request, *args, **kwargs):
        action = kwargs['action']
        del kwargs['action']
        return getattr(views, action)(request, *args, **kwargs)
    return _dec

This decorator handle a extra "action" parameter from an url and call this desired action in the provided views module.

Example:

from posts import views

urlpatterns = patterns('posts.views',
    ...
    url(r'^(?P<id>\d+)/(?P<action>delete|publish|edit)/$', action(views), name="posts-action"),
    ...
)

In templates:

{% url posts-action id=post.id,action="delete" %}

Author:: Batiste
Posted:: March 28, 2008
Language:: Python
Tags:: action crud decorator rest url
Score:: 3 (after 3 ratings)

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