how to create params in django url?

Question

I have a django project where url is like this

url(r'^invoice/(?P<invoice_id>[A-Za-z0-9]+)/(?P<order_id>[A-Za-z0-9]+)$',GenerateInvoicePdf,name='invoice'),

which generates url localhost:8000/invoice/2341wq23fewfe1231/3242

but i want url to be like localhost:8000/invoice?invoice_id=2341wq23fewfe1231&order_id=3242

i tried documentation and used syntax like this re_path(r'^comments/(?:page-(?P<page_number>\d+)/)?$', comments), But did not get desired result.

how can i do so?

If you're using Django 2.0 + you can change your URL patterns so they don't need to have regex in them. — Reez0
– Reez0, Commented Dec 23, 2018 at 13:08

ruddra · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-23 11:05:46Z

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The parts which you are trying to write after ? is called url query string. You don't need to define them in the urls.py. You can just use:

re_path(r'^comments/$', comments),

And inside comments views, you can access the query string like this:

def comments(request):
    invoice_id = request.GET.get('invoice_id')
    order_id = request.GET.get('order_id')
    # rest of the code

answered Dec 23, 2018 at 8:41

ruddra

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