Dynamic direct_to_template

Question

In my webapp, there are a lot of errors or other messages that just show a template that is very close to the URL. At the moment, I have half a dozen static mappers like this:

(r'^/message/foo/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'message/foo.html'}),
(r'^/message/bar/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'message/bar.html'}),

Is there some built-in way I can hook up /message/*/ to show the template message/*.html?

Answer 1

This is pretty easy. Do it like this:

(r'^/message/(?<name>\d+)/$', 'your_app.views.direct_to_template')

and:

def direct_to_template(name):
  return render_to_response('message/%s.html' % name)