url with multiple optional arguments

Question

right now I have a view to show info about some tickets and I'm trying to add a functionality to filter those tickets.

Say I will have 4 filters:

Date
Owner
Category
Status

Category Status

I want to give the option to use some of those filters, all or none, the thing is I'm kinda lost in how can I make it work in the urls. So far I found that you can add some optional arguments but they appear in some sort of succession like:

/May/Jack/Gas/Accepted

But if I only select 2 filters like /Jack/Accepted/ it grabs the filters incorrectly.

Is there a way I can achieve this? Or some other method I can use instead of this. Ty

what have you tried so far. Post your urls.py and views.py

badiya
– badiya

2017-07-04 13:21:37 +00:00
Commented Jul 4, 2017 at 13:21 — badiya
– badiya, Commented Jul 4, 2017 at 13:21

Daniel Roseman · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-04 13:23:55Z

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Don't try and do this with URL arguments. Instead, use querystring arguments. The URL should be in the form:

my_path/?date=May&owner=Jack&category=Gas&status=accepted

and the URL pattern is just:

url(r'^my_path/$', views.my_view, 'my_url'),

and in the view you can access request.GET['date'] etc.

answered Jul 4, 2017 at 13:23

Daniel Roseman

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