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Declarative class-based datastructures, for simple and flexible URLConfs in Django.

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django-url-namespaces
=====================

This is a somewhat-functional attempt to bring a more intuitive and less spaghettified syntax to Django's URLConf. It implements a declarative class-based syntax:


# urls.py (née 'URLConf')

from django.conf.urls import patterns
from url_namespaces import (Namespace, View, Redirect, \
ReverseRedirect, KeywordReverseRedirect)


class MyOtherURLs(Namespace):
""" URL namespaces are classes,
the URLs they contain are properties
of those classes. """

class Meta:
namespace = 'testapp:views'
app_name = 'testapp'
view_prefix = ''

rss = View(
r'^(?P<blog>[\w\-]+)/rss/?$',
'testapp.views.blogrss',
arg='yo', other_arg='dogg')

index = View(
r'^(?P<blog>[\w\-]+)/$',
'testapp.views.blogpage')

entry = View(
r'^(?P<blog>[\w\-]+)/(?P<entry>[\w\-]+)/?$',
'testapp.views.blogentrypage')


class MyURLs(Namespace):
""" Namespaces can be nested """

class Meta:
namespace = 'testapp'
app_name = 'testapp'
view_prefix = ''

pages = MyOtherURLs(r'^/pages/')

elsewhere = Redirect(
r'^/yodogg?',
"http://www.yodogg.com/")

root = ReverseRedirect(
r'^/?',
'testapp:index', blog="test")

entry_redirect = ReverseRedirect(
r'^blog/(?P<blog>[\w\-]+)/(?P<entry>[\w\-]+)/?$',
'testapp:entry', blog="%(blog)s", entry="%(entry)s")

entry_redirect_again = KeywordReverseRedirect(
r'^blog/(?P<blog>[\w\-]+)/(?P<entry>[\w\-]+)/?$',
'testapp:entry')

# These classes generate standard URL patterns
# and use url(), reverse(), RegexURLResolver;
# the project aims for compatibility with Django's
# URLConf structures.

urlpatterns = patterns('',
MyURLs(r'^/?').connect('testapp'))


Djano-URL-Namespaces implements a host of combinator objects, representing intuitive ideas e.g. `View`, `Redirect`, `Namespace` &c,
which can be modularly rearranged without the worries incumbent in getting ones' hands dirty with the rather fragile Django-native
URLConf syntax.

At the time of writing the project is in a state of somewhat indeterminate disrepair; namespaces don't nest quite right, there's a lot of sketchy code commented out and not enough docstrings, etc. If this is the sort of thing that floats your boat, know that I never turn away an entertaining pull-request, indeed!

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