Working in Django 1.3, I had some trouble with my view code.<\/p>\n
Actually, the error was pretty vague, something about my Apparently, you can’t do that.<\/p>\n Once I found the offending line of code, something in my mind clicked on to remind me that I had hit this problem before. To solve it, I had moved the reverse statement into the Looking for a better solution, a quick Google Search brought up this post in in the django-users group<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n I have a CreateView which I’d like to redirect to a custom success_url<\/p>\n defined in my URLconf. As I want to stick to the DRY-principle I just<\/p>\n did the following:<\/p>\n Unfortunately, this breaks my site by raising an<\/p>\n “ImproperlyConfigured: The included urlconf doesn’t have any patterns<\/p>\n in it”. Removing success_url and setting the model’s<\/p>\n get_absolute_url() to the following works fine:<\/p>\n I could reproduce this with a brand new project\/application so I don’t<\/p>\n think this has something to do with my setup.<\/p>\n Can anyone confirm this issue?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n So others have hit the same problem. Looking further down the page, a more concise solution was offered:<\/p>\n I used this for my current project – a little cleaner.<\/p>\n In v1.4, we can use the ‘reverse_lazy()’ function in place of ‘reverse()’.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n Suddenly, I understand the reason for the BTW, I highly recommend using Braces with class based views. I have found several to be quite useful to speed up coding and to keep things clean and clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working in Django 1.3, I had some trouble with my view code. Actually, the error was pretty vague, something about my urls.py containing no patterns. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth (during which I learned I really don’t know how to best use the debugger in Eclipse), I traced the problem down to three … <\/p>\nurls.py<\/code> containing no patterns. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth (during which I learned I really don’t know how to best use the debugger in Eclipse), I traced the problem down to three of my view classes. All three included a setting for the success_url attribute:<\/p>\nsuccess_url = reverse('support_list')\n<\/code><\/pre>\nget_success_url()<\/code> function:<\/p>\ndef get_success_url()\n return reverse('support_list')\n<\/code><\/pre>\n success_url = reverse(\"my-named-url\") \n<\/code><\/pre>\n def get_absolute_url(self): \n return reverse(\"my-named-url\") \n<\/code><\/pre>\n success_url = lazy(reverse, str)(\"support_list\") \n<\/code><\/pre>\nSuccessURLRedirectListMixin<\/code> in the popular Django Braces<\/a> package. Using this mixin, one can declare the success url with a simple variable assignment (no lazy code required), and the mixin provides the get_success_url()<\/code> function needed to make everything work.<\/p>\n