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Easier and Faster than flatpages. Rendering templates by simpling calling by his path on the URL

Author:
mariocesar
Posted:
February 29, 2012
Language:
Python
Version:
1.3
Score:
2 (after 2 ratings)

This is in my opinion a better way to have flat pages in a project. In the example with the url patterns settings:

/                 will render -> /pages/welcome.html
/contact          will render -> /pages/contact.html
/products/        will render -> /pages/products/index.html
/products/pricing will render -> /pages/products/pricing.html
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"""
views.py
"""

from django.views.generic.base import View
from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
from django.template.base import TemplateDoesNotExist
from django.http import Http404

class PageView(View):
    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        slug = kwargs['slug']
        # Fallback to search a index page if url ends with '/'
        slug = '%sindex' % slug if slug.endswith('/') else slug
        template = 'pages/%s.html' % slug
        response = TemplateResponse(request, template, {})

        # test if the template exists before the common middleware
        # try to automatically render the response
        try:
            response.resolve_template(template)
        except TemplateDoesNotExist:
            raise Http404('Page "%s" is not found' % slug)

        return response

"""
urls.py
"""

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from project.pages import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^(?P<slug>.+)$', views.PageView.as_view()),
    url(r'^$', views.PageView.as_view(), {'slug':'welcome'}) # Easy to add aliases
)

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Comments

umbrae (on April 2, 2012):

Does this not have a path vulnerability in it? Slug could be ../../../../../etc/passwd for example.

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