Javascript url handling for Django that doesn’t hurt.

This is an adapted version of the original project to work with multilingual websites. The changes are custom and might not work for others therefore I would recommend to use the original project if needed.

Django JS Reverse is a small django app that makes url handling of named urls in javascript easy and non-annoying..

For example you can retrieve a named url:

urls.py:

url(r'^/betterliving/(?P<category_slug>[-\w]+)/(?P<entry_pk>\d+)/$', 'get_house', name='betterliving_get_house'),

in javascript like:

Urls.betterliving_get_house('house', 12)

Result:

/betterliving/house/12/

0.7.3

New: Support for Django 1.10

Chg: Renamed "production" branch to "master"

Fix: #48 - "Change False to 'window' in global object name in README." Thank you karamanolev

Fix: PR #45 - "Fix: collectstatic_js_reverse usage message" Thank you ghedsouza

Fix: PR #44 - "Remove duplicate _get_url call" Thank you razh

0.7.2

Fix: #42 - "Templatetag js_reverse_inline breaks on Django 1.9" Thank you tommikaikkonen

Optimized imports

0.7.1

Fix: #41 - make it possible to use number 0 as url argument

Full changelog

• Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)
• Django (1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10)

Install using pip …

pip install django-js-reverse

… or clone the project from github.

git clone https://github.com/ierror/django-js-reverse.git

Add 'django_js_reverse' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'django_js_reverse',
)

First generate static file by

./manage.py collectstatic_js_reverse

If you change some urls or add an app and want to update the reverse.js file, run the command again.

After this add the file to your template

<script src="{% static 'django_js_reverse/js/reverse.js' %}"></script>

Include none-cached view …

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^jsreverse/$', 'django_js_reverse.views.urls_js', name='js_reverse'),
)

… or a cached one that delivers the urls javascript

from django_js_reverse.views import urls_js
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^jsreverse/$', cache_page(3600)(urls_js), name='js_reverse'),
)

Include javascript in your template

<script src="{% url js_reverse %}" type="text/javascript"></script>

or, if you are using Django > 1.5

<script src="{% url 'js_reverse' %}" type="text/javascript"></script>

{% load js_reverse %}

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

{% js_reverse_inline %}

</script>

If your url names are valid javascript identifiers ([$A-Z_][-Z_$]*)i you can access them by the Dot notation:

Urls.betterliving_get_house('house', 12)

If the named url contains invalid identifiers use the Square bracket notation instead:

Urls['betterliving-get-house']('house', 12)
Urls['namespace:betterliving-get-house']('house', 12)

Optionally, you can overwrite the default javascript variable ‘Urls’ used to access the named urls by django setting

JS_REVERSE_JS_VAR_NAME = 'Urls'

Optionally, you can change the name of the global object the javascript variable used to access the named urls is attached to. Default is this

JS_REVERSE_JS_GLOBAL_OBJECT_NAME = 'window'

Optionally, you can disable the minfication of the generated javascript file by django setting

JS_REVERSE_JS_MINIFY = False

By default all namespaces are included

JS_REVERSE_EXCLUDE_NAMESPACES = []

To exclude any namespaces from the generated javascript file, add them to the JS_REVERSE_EXCLUDE_NAMESPACES setting

JS_REVERSE_EXCLUDE_NAMESPACES = ['admin', 'djdt', ...]

If you want to include only specific namespaces add them to the JS_REVERSE_INCLUDE_ONLY_NAMESPACES setting tips:

• Use "" for urls without namespace
• Use "foo0" to include urls just from "foo" namaspace and not from any subnamespaces (e.g. "foo:bar")

JS_REVERSE_INCLUDE_ONLY_NAMESPACES = ['poll', 'calendar', ...]

If you run your application under a subpath, the collectstatic_js_reverse needs to take care of this. Define the prefix in your django settings:

JS_REVERSE_SCRIPT_PREFIX = '/myprefix/'

By default collectstatic_js_reverse writes its output (reverse.js) to your project's STATIC_ROOT. You can change the output path:

JS_REVERSE_OUTPUT_PATH = 'some_path'

make test

MIT

@i_error

Enjoy!