Django 1.9: Added an alternative implementation of urls() which derives an url pattern name from the callable, in order to maintain DRY for url patterns.

- Legacy-Id: 12617

ietf/utils/urls.py

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+# Copyright The IETF Trust 2016, All Rights Reserved
+
+import six
+import debug                            # pyflakes:ignore
+
+from django.conf.urls import url as django_url
+
+#@debug.trace
+def url(regex, view, kwargs=None, name=None, prefix=''):
+    if isinstance(view, (list, tuple)):
+        pass                            # use the name passed in
+    elif isinstance(view, six.string_types):
+        name = view
+    elif callable(view):
+        name = "%s.%s" % (view.__module__, view.__name__)
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError("Auto-named url from view of type %s: %s" % (type(view), view))
+    if name:
+        debug.show('name')
+    return django_url(regex, view, kwargs=kwargs, name=name, prefix=prefix)
+