Re: Highlighting Active Navigation Link - correct approach?

You raise a good point about sub menus.

Possibly something like this:

def resolve_urlname(request):

    """Allows us to see what the matched urlname for this

    request is within the template"""

    from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve

    try:

        res = resolve(request.path)

        if res:

            return {

                'urlname' : res.url_name,

                'urlparts' : res.url_name.split("__")

            }

    except:

        return {}

But then that forces a naming convention which might not be desired.

The other option is to see if the core devs would accept a patch which allows you to specify a 'urlname group' on the url() method in urls.py..

Cal

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <m.r.sopacua@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6-7-2012 16:01, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
> I've actually just done a ticket about this..
>
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18584
>
> Personally, I think the approach mentioned in the ticket is a far saner way
> of doing things.

Just wondering about this:
if res:
     return {'urlname' : res.url_name}

a) no else clause, so there's a codepath where no dict is returned
b) if that can't be reached, then why the if statement.

Other that that, it probably needs a bit of refinement if you're going
to force a naming convention, then force the convention on how to deal
with sub menus, so that we can generate stuff like:
News
   | world
   >> local
   | business
Polls
   | current
   | recent
etc and have both "news" and "local" highlighted. For example it makes
sense for urlnames like this to have a double underscore separator, so
the urlname for news/local would be news__local.
Then again, it might be overkill.
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Melvyn Sopacua

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