November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
840 pages
26h 30m
English
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21.7 URL Cleanup
Before we finish, we should take a quick look at our URL patterns. You’ll discover that we’re not fully adhering to a clean URL path policy. We have URLs with the path prefix /user/password/ but no view for the actual path. We can use a simple GCBV to fix that, as shown in Example 21.99.
Example 21.99: Project Code
14 password_urls = [ 15 url(r'^$', 16 RedirectView.as_view( 17 pattern_name='dj-auth:pw_reset_start', 18 permanent=False)), . ... 64 ]
Similarly, our activation webpage uses the /activate/ URL path prefix, but we don’t have an actual page for /activate/ or even for /activate/<uidb64>/. To catch all of ...
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