I am working on this coursework where I need to create a Django back-end with API routes and templated routes. Within the descriptor, I was given the routes which the project needs to follow. I made a class based view which successfully creates albums. However, the issue which I see is that my implementation GET and POST to /albums/new. Where the descriptor, says I have to GET from /albums/new and POST to /albums to create a new album. I’ve looked everywhere online to figure out how to implement this and haven’t found anything. The lecturer then gave us a tip: The POST of /albums/new/ could be mapped to POST /albums/ using the Django URL dispatcher, where it calls the same class or method for POST. But still had no luck finding anything.
Here’s my code:
views.py album creation view
class AlbumCreateView(SuccessMessageMixin, generic.edit.CreateView):
form_class = AlbumForm
template_name = 'label_music_manager/update_album.html'
success_message = _('AlbumCreated')
def get_success_url(self):
return self.object.get_absolute_url()
def dispatch(self, request):
if not check_editor(request.user):
return redirect('album_list')
return super().dispatch(request)
url patterns of my view (I created a temporary fix where I can POST to /albums by calling the same view but I don’t think that’s intended because they wouldn’t have separated it)
path('albums/', views.AlbumCreateView.as_view(), name='create_album'),
path('albums/new/', views.AlbumCreateView.as_view(), name='new_album'),
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You could catch and check the url in the dispatch method.
def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
if not check_editor(request.user):
return redirect('album_list')
if request.method == 'POST' and self.request.path == reverse_lazy('new_album'):
return redirect('create_album')
return super().dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
This way, it would re-direct to the / url