Route and Mapper core classes
The Route object holds a route recognition and generation routine.
See Route.__init__ docs for usage.
Build the regexp by iterating through the routelist and replacing dicts with the appropriate regexp match
Recursively build our regexp given a path, and a controller list.
Returns the regular expression string, and two booleans that can be ignored as they’re only used internally by buildnextreg.
Generate a URL from ourself given a set of keyword arguments
Toss an exception if this set of keywords would cause a gap in the url.
Generate a minimized version of the URL
Generate a non-minimal version of the URL
Make a full routelist string for use with non-minimized generation
Transform the given argument into a unicode string.
Create a regular expression for matching purposes
Note: This MUST be called before match can function properly.
clist should be a list of valid controller strings that can be matched, for this reason makeregexp should be called by the web framework after it knows all available controllers that can be utilized.
include_names indicates whether this should be a match regexp assigned to itself using regexp grouping names, or if names should be excluded for use in a single larger regexp to determine if any routes match
Match a url to our regexp.
While the regexp might match, this operation isn’t guaranteed as there’s other factors that can cause a match to fail even though the regexp succeeds (Default that was relied on wasn’t given, requirement regexp doesn’t pass, etc.).
Therefore the calling function shouldn’t assume this will return a valid dict, the other possible return is False if a match doesn’t work out.
Mapper handles URL generation and URL recognition in a web application.
Mapper is built handling dictionary’s. It is assumed that the web application will handle the dictionary returned by URL recognition to dispatch appropriately.
URL generation is done by passing keyword parameters into the generate function, a URL is then returned.
Create and connect a new Route to the Mapper.
Usage:
m = Mapper()
m.connect(':controller/:action/:id')
m.connect('date/:year/:month/:day', controller="blog", action="view")
m.connect('archives/:page', controller="blog", action="by_page",
requirements = { 'page':'\d{1,2}' })
m.connect('category_list', 'archives/category/:section', controller='blog', action='category',
section='home', type='list')
m.connect('home', '', controller='blog', action='view', section='home')
Atomically creates regular expressions for all connected routes
Extends the mapper routes with a list of Route objects
If a path_prefix is provided, all the routes will have their path prepended with the path_prefix.
Example:
>>> map = Mapper(controller_scan=None)
>>> map.connect('home', '/', controller='home', action='splash')
>>> map.matchlist[0].name == 'home'
True
>>> routes = [Route('index', '/index.htm', controller='home',
... action='index')]
>>> map.extend(routes)
>>> len(map.matchlist) == 2
True
>>> map.extend(routes, path_prefix='/subapp')
>>> len(map.matchlist) == 3
True
>>> map.matchlist[2].routepath == '/subapp/index.htm'
True
Note
This function does not merely extend the mapper with the given list of routes, it actually creates new routes with identical calling arguments.
Generate a route from a set of keywords
Returns the url text, or None if no URL could be generated.
m.generate(controller='content',action='view',id=10)
Match a URL against against one of the routes contained.
Will return None if no valid match is found.
resultdict = m.match('/joe/sixpack')
Add a redirect route to the mapper
Redirect routes bypass the wrapped WSGI application and instead result in a redirect being issued by the RoutesMiddleware. As such, this method is only meaningful when using RoutesMiddleware.
By default, a 302 Found status code is used, this can be changed by providing a _redirect_code keyword argument which will then be used instead. Note that the entire status code string needs to be present.
When using keyword arguments, all arguments that apply to matching will be used for the match, while generation specific options will be used during generation. Thus all options normally available to connected Routes may be used with redirect routes as well.
Example:
map = Mapper()
map.redirect('/legacyapp/archives/{url:.*}, '/archives/{url})
map.redirect('/home/index', '/', _redirect_code='301 Moved Permanently')
Generate routes for a controller resource
The member_name name should be the appropriate singular version of the resource given your locale and used with members of the collection. The collection_name name will be used to refer to the resource collection methods and should be a plural version of the member_name argument. By default, the member_name name will also be assumed to map to a controller you create.
The concept of a web resource maps somewhat directly to ‘CRUD’ operations. The overlying things to keep in mind is that mapping a resource is about handling creating, viewing, and editing that resource.
All keyword arguments are optional.
Additional action mappings used to manipulate/view the entire set of resources provided by the controller.
Example:
map.resource('message', 'messages', collection={'rss':'GET'})
# GET /message/rss (maps to the rss action)
# also adds named route "rss_message"
Additional action mappings used to access an individual ‘member’ of this controllers resources.
Example:
map.resource('message', 'messages', member={'mark':'POST'})
# POST /message/1/mark (maps to the mark action)
# also adds named route "mark_message"
Action mappings that involve dealing with a new member in the controller resources.
Example:
map.resource('message', 'messages', new={'preview':'POST'})
# POST /message/new/preview (maps to the preview action)
# also adds a url named "preview_new_message"
Perpends the route names that are generated with the name_prefix given. Combined with the path_prefix option, it’s easy to generate route names and paths that represent resources that are in relations.
Example:
map.resource('message', 'messages', controller='categories',
path_prefix='/category/:category_id',
name_prefix="category_")
# GET /category/7/message/1
# has named route "category_message"
A dict containing information about the parent resource, for creating a nested resource. It should contain the member_name and collection_name of the parent resource. This dict will be available via the associated Route object which can be accessed during a request via request.environ['routes.route']
If parent_resource is supplied and path_prefix isn’t, path_prefix will be generated from parent_resource as “<parent collection name>/:<parent member name>_id”.
If parent_resource is supplied and name_prefix isn’t, name_prefix will be generated from parent_resource as “<parent member name>_”.
Example:
>>> from routes.util import url_for
>>> m = Mapper()
>>> m.resource('location', 'locations',
... parent_resource=dict(member_name='region',
... collection_name='regions'))
>>> # path_prefix is "regions/:region_id"
>>> # name prefix is "region_"
>>> url_for('region_locations', region_id=13)
'/regions/13/locations'
>>> url_for('region_new_location', region_id=13)
'/regions/13/locations/new'
>>> url_for('region_location', region_id=13, id=60)
'/regions/13/locations/60'
>>> url_for('region_edit_location', region_id=13, id=60)
'/regions/13/locations/60/edit'
Overriding generated path_prefix:
>>> m = Mapper()
>>> m.resource('location', 'locations',
... parent_resource=dict(member_name='region',
... collection_name='regions'),
... path_prefix='areas/:area_id')
>>> # name prefix is "region_"
>>> url_for('region_locations', area_id=51)
'/areas/51/locations'
Overriding generated name_prefix:
>>> m = Mapper()
>>> m.resource('location', 'locations',
... parent_resource=dict(member_name='region',
... collection_name='regions'),
... name_prefix='')
>>> # path_prefix is "regions/:region_id"
>>> url_for('locations', region_id=51)
'/regions/51/locations'
Match a URL against against one of the routes contained.
Will return None if no valid match is found, otherwise a result dict and a route object is returned.
resultdict, route_obj = m.match('/joe/sixpack')
Utility functions for use in templates / controllers
PLEASE NOTE: Many of these functions expect an initialized RequestConfig object. This is expected to have been initialized for EACH REQUEST by the web framework.
Generates a URL
All keys given to url_for are sent to the Routes Mapper instance for generation except for:
anchor specified the anchor name to be appened to the path
host overrides the default (current) host if provided
protocol overrides the default (current) protocol if provided
qualified creates the URL with the host/port information as
needed
The URL is generated based on the rest of the keys. When generating a new URL, values will be used from the current request’s parameters (if present). The following rules are used to determine when and how to keep the current requests parameters:
For example, if the current request yielded a dict of {‘controller’: ‘blog’, ‘action’: ‘view’, ‘id’: 2}, with the standard ‘:controller/:action/:id’ route, you’d get the following results:
url_for(id=4) => '/blog/view/4',
url_for(controller='/admin') => '/admin',
url_for(controller='admin') => '/admin/view/2'
url_for(action='edit') => '/blog/edit/2',
url_for(action='list', id=None) => '/blog/list'
Static and Named Routes
If there is a string present as the first argument, a lookup is done against the named routes table to see if there’s any matching routes. The keyword defaults used with static routes will be sent in as GET query arg’s if a route matches.
If no route by that name is found, the string is assumed to be a raw URL. Should the raw URL begin with / then appropriate SCRIPT_NAME data will be added if present, otherwise the string will be used as the url with keyword args becoming GET query args.
The URL Generator generates URL’s
It is automatically instantiated by the RoutesMiddleware and put into the wsgiorg.routing_args tuple accessible as:
url = environ['wsgiorg.routing_args'][0][0]
Or via the routes.url key:
url = environ['routes.url']
The url object may be instantiated outside of a web context for use in testing, however sub_domain support and fully qualified URL’s cannot be generated without supplying a dict that must contain the key HTTP_HOST.
Generates a URL
All keys given to url_for are sent to the Routes Mapper instance for generation except for:
anchor specified the anchor name to be appened to the path
host overrides the default (current) host if provided
protocol overrides the default (current) protocol if provided
qualified creates the URL with the host/port information as
needed
Generate a route that includes params used on the current request
The arguments for this method are identical to __call__ except that arguments set to None will remove existing route matches of the same name from the set of arguments used to construct a URL.
Issues a redirect based on the arguments.
Redirect’s should occur as a “302 Moved” header, however the web framework may utilize a different method.
All arguments are passed to url_for to retrieve the appropriate URL, then the resulting URL it sent to the redirect function as the URL.