Django: international subroutes

Question

It's written in official documentation here that i18n_patterns() is only allowed in your root URLconf.

This is a problem for me because I need those URLs working:

/en/products/
/fr/produits/
/sv/produkt/
/en/products/detail/[my product name]/
/en/produits/detail/[my product name]/
/sv/produkt/detalj/[my product name]/
/sv/produkt/detalj/[my product name]/

Heres my root urls.py:

urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
    url(_(r'^produits/detail/'),
        include('produits.urls', namespace="produits")
        ),
    url(_(r'^produits/'),
        include('produits.urls', namespace="produits")
        ),
)

So, for the lastest translation works ok, but the first one doesn't. The translation is ok, but I want to transfer the last part ('detail/') to the app produits that should handle it transparently. How do I do?

If the URL is in the localised language, why do you need the `/en/` or `/fr/` in there? — Ewan, Aug 01 '15 at 11:15
And why wouldn't it work to just move the `detail/` part to the app's `urls.py`? What have you tried? — knbk, Aug 01 '15 at 18:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '15 at 21:16

Here's how I've solved the problem. This is not a good solution but it's the only one working for now with Django 1.8.

I've removed my routes from my "produits" application, and added them to the main urls.py which means mixing application configuration with global configuration. I dont like it.

I've also added the name of the application before each route: produits_detail and produits_index. Thus I know the app those routes are for. Once again I dont like mixing "global setting" and specific settings, but it seems I have no choice. Anyway, few lines of code, and it works pretty well.

from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from produits import views as p_views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^i18n/', include('django.conf.urls.i18n')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]
urlpatterns += i18n_patterns(
    url(_(r'^produits/detail/(?P<slug>[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)/$'),
        p_views.DetailView.as_view(), name='produits_detail'),
    url(_(r'^produits/'),
        p_views.IndexView.as_view(), name='produits_index'),
)

Django: international subroutes

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