Django Unleashed

9.4.1 Creating a Webpage to Delete Post Objects

Much like blog_post_update, our blog_post_delete will replicate the path segment used to identify Post objects found in blog_post_detail. However, to differentiate blog_post_delete from either blog_post_detail or blog_post_detail, our new URL pattern will append the /delete/ path segment to our regular expression pattern, as shown in Example 9.68.

Example 9.68: Project Code

blog/urls.py in 459a101fa0

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19      url(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/' 20          r'(?P<month>\d{1,2})/' 21          r'(?P<slug>[\w\-]+)/' 22          r'delete/$', 23          PostDelete.as_view(), 24          name='blog_post_delete'),

Much like with the update URLs, it is in our interest to build a method ...