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django - What is reverse()?

When I read Django code sometimes, I see in some templates reverse(). I am not quite sure what this is but it is used together with HttpResponseRedirect. How and when is this reverse() supposed to be used?

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Let's suppose that in your urls.py you have defined this:

url(r'^foo$', some_view, name='url_name'),

In a template you can then refer to this url as:

<!-- django <= 1.4 -->
<a href="{% url url_name %}">link which calls some_view</a>

<!-- django >= 1.5 or with {% load url from future %} in your template -->
<a href="{% url 'url_name' %}">link which calls some_view</a>

This will be rendered as:

<a href="/foo/">link which calls some_view</a>

Now say you want to do something similar in your views.py - e.g. you are handling some other URL (not /foo/) in some other view (not some_view) and you want to redirect the user to /foo/ (often the case on successful form submission).

You could just do:

return HttpResponseRedirect('/foo/')

But what if you want to change the URL in the future? You'd have to update your urls.py and all references to it in your code. This violates the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle and the whole idea of editing in one place only - which is something to strive for.

Instead, you can say:

from django.urls import reverse
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('url_name'))

This looks through all URLs defined in your project for the URL defined with the name url_name and returns the actual URL /foo/.

This means that you refer to the URL only by its name attribute - if you want to change the URL itself or the view it refers to you can do this by editing one place only - urls.py.


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