Two apps in one URL in Django

Question

I try to link two apps to one URL. I found an example, where that can be possible with "include" command and two separate "urls.py" for each app.

So, I tried to do that, but it still only one app works on page... Please, help.

My main URL config:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
 # Examples:
 url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
 url(r'^', include('joins.urls')),
 url(r'^', include('item.urls')),
 url(r'^items/get/(?P<item_id>\d+)$', 'item.views.item', name='item'),
 url(r'^(?P<ref_id>.*)$', 'joins.views.share', name='share'),
)

My first app URL config:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
 # Examples:
 url(r'^', 'joins.views.home', name='home'),
)

My second app URL config:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

urlpatterns = patterns('',
 # Examples:
 url(r'^', 'item.views.items', name='home'),
)

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '15 at 12:32

Your entire approach is mistaken, unfortunately. A view is responsible entirely for responding to a URL and returning a response. It simply doesn't make sense to talk about having two views at a single URL.

If you need functionality provided by two apps within one URL, then think about abstracting the shared functionality into a utility method, or a template tag, or a context processor.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '15 at 11:20

0

Add the dollar sign to the regex:

url(r'^$', 'joins.views.home', name='home'),

Without the $ the ^ regex matches all urls.

Of course the item.views.items will not work anyway (django executes the first matched url) but other views from item app will work just fine.

answered Mar 23 '15 at 11:20

catavaran

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Thx, but I dont understand, what means "other views". I have two apps. One of them (joins) - subscribe form, another (item) - list of blogs. All, what i want to do - see them both at one page... So, how I can do that? – s_spirit Mar 23 '15 at 11:41
My view for 'item': from django.shortcuts import render from django.http.response import HttpResponse # Create your views here. def items(request): return render_to_response('items.html', {'items': Item.objects.all()}) def item(request, item_id): return render_to_response('item.html', {'item': Item.objects.get(id=item_id), 'comments': Comments.objects.filter(comments_item_id=item_id)}) – s_spirit Mar 23 '15 at 11:44
You can't have two views at the same url. Django runs the first view for the matched url. – catavaran Mar 23 '15 at 11:48
@s_spirit You want two views for one URL? To do that write a view that gets both models, pass both to your render function and make a template that displays what you want from each. Making two urls the same will only do what the first match does – joel goldstick Mar 23 '15 at 13:17

joel goldstick · Answer 3 · 2015-03-23T16:16:19.213

You want something like this I think:

 url(r'^joins/', include('joins.urls')),
 url(r'^items/', include('item.urls')),

see this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/urls/#including-other-urlconfs

@s_spirit You want two views for one URL? To do that write a view that gets both models, pass both to your render function and make a template that displays what you want from each. Making two urls the same will only do what the first match does – joel goldstick 2 hours ago

Two apps in one URL in Django

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