I am using modeltranslation in my project, and my goal is to also translate the slugs of my urls.
The slugs are successfully translated and I overwrote the save method of my Model to automatically populate the slug fields for all the languages in my project.
class FrontendCategory(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=255, db_index=True)
slug = AutoSlugField(_('Slug'), populate_from='name', max_length=255, db_index=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
for lang_code, lang_verbose in settings.LANGUAGES:
if hasattr(self, 'slug_%s' % lang_code) and hasattr(self, 'name_%s' % lang_code):
setattr(self, 'slug_%s' % lang_code, slugify(getattr(self, 'name_%s' % lang_code, u"")))
def get_absolute_url(self):
url = reverse(
'catalogue:frontend-category',
kwargs={'frontend_category_slug': self.slug, 'pk': self.pk})
return url
I checked and all the slugs are translated and saved correctly in the database.
this is my url:
url(r'^section/(P<frontend_category_slug>[\w-]+(/[\w-]+)*)_(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
self.frontend_category_view.as_view(), name='frontend-category'),
if I call the get_absolute_url method in a template the following error gets raised:
Reverse for 'frontend-category' with arguments '()' and
keyword arguments '{'pk': 5, 'frontend_category_slug':'test-slug'}' not found.
1 pattern(s) tried: ['de/catalogue/section/(P<frontend_category_slug>[\\w-]+(/[\\w-]+)*)_(?P<pk>\\d+)/$']
which seams weird because it is exactly what I seem to have defined in my url definition. All of this was working before I translated the slug with modeltranslation. Is there some kind of slug lookup performed by the url definition? Am I missing something else?
It turns out that my problem had nothing to do with modeltranslation and languages, while I was editing my code I accidentally edited my url definition which caused this error.
url(r'^section/(P<frontend_category_slug>[\w-]+(/[\w-]+)*)_(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
self.frontend_category_view.as_view(), name='frontend-category'),
should be
url(r'^section/(?P<frontend_category_slug>[\w-]+(/[\w-]+)*)_(?P<pk>\d+)/$',
self.frontend_category_view.as_view(), name='frontend-category'),
(missing questionmark befor P):
?P<frontend_category_slug>