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Add the slug field inside Django Model
In this tutorial, we are going to learn about the SlugField in Django.
SlugField
SlugField is a way to generate a URL using the data which we already have. You can generate URL using your title of the post or page. Let's see one detailed example.
Let's say we have an article with name This is from Tutorialspoint with id = 5. Then we can have URL as www.tutorialspoint.com/posts/5/. It's difficult for the content writers to recognize the article with the previous URL. But, if you have a URL like www.tutorialspoint.com/this-isfrom-tutorialspoint, then it's easy for us to identify the piece. So, SlugField is used to generate those types of URLs'.
Let's see the code of our post model. Compare your model with the following model.
CHOICES = (
('draft', 'Draft'),
('published', 'Published'),
)
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length = 250)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length = 250, null = True, blank = True)
text = models.TextField()
published_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)
updated_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
status = models.CharField(max_length = 10, choices = CHOICES, default ='draft')
class Meta:
ordering = ('_Published_At', )
def __str__(self):
return self.titleNow, we will add SlugField to our project. So, it automatically generates the URLs according the title.
Create a file called util.py in the project level directory. We have to generate URL every time invoke the Post model. To achieve that, we need signals.
import string
from django.utils.text import slugify
def get_random_string(size = 10, chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits
return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(size))
def get_slug(instance, slug = None):
if slug is not None:
slug_two = slug
else:
slug_two = slugify(instance.title)
Klass = instance.__class__
is_exists = Klass.objects.filter(slug_two = slug_two).exists()
if is_exists:
slug_two = "{slug_two}-{random_string}".format(slug_two = slug_two, ran
string = get_random_string(size = 5))
return get_slug(instance, slug = slug)
return slug_twoAdd the following code at the end of the file models.py.
def pre_save_receiver(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs): if not instance.slug_two: instance.slug_two = get_slug(instance) pre_save.connect(pre_save_receiver, sender = Article)
In the urls.py edit the path like path('posts/', post). Edit the views.py according to the code.
def article(request, slug):
obj = Article.objects.filter(slug__iexact = slug)
if obj.exists():
obj = obj.first()
else:
return HttpResponse('Article Not Found')
context = {
'article': obj
}
return render(request, 'posts/post.html', context)
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