How can I pass a dict to urlpatterns in Django

Question

I am trying to send data from my web page to urlpattern in Django and then to the view. I know that I can include a dict in my urlpattern path that will be sent to my view:

path("edit_page", views.edit_article, {'article':'fake_text'}, name="edit_page")

I want to send the dict directly from my webpage. I have been trying:

urls.py

path("edit_page", views.edit_article, name="edit_page")

html

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Where am I going wrong?

user_67579 · Answer

You typically encode the data in the URL, for example with:

path('edit_page//', views.edit_article, name='edit_page'),

then you define the view as:

def edit_article(request, article):
    # …

then the view will be called with the article part of the URL path.

In the template you can then "calculate" the URL with:

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How can I pass a dict to urlpatterns in Django

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