How do I match the question mark character in a Django URL?

Question

In my Django application, I have a URL I would like to match which looks a little like this:

/mydjangoapp/?parameter1=hello&parameter2=world

The problem here is the '?' character being a reserved regex character.

I have tried a number of ways to match this... This was my first attempt:

(r'^pbanalytics/log/\?parameter1=(?P<parameter1>[\w0-9-]+)&parameter2=(?P<parameter2>[\w0-9-]+), 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

This was my second attempt:

(r'^pbanalytics/log/\\?parameter1=(?P<parameter1>[\w0-9-]+)&parameter2=(?P<parameter2>[\w0-9-]+), 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

but still no luck!

Does anyone know how I might match a '?' exactly in a Django URL?

Answer 1

Don't. You shouldn't match query string with URL Dispatcher. You can access all values using request.GET dictionary.

urls

(r'^pbanalytics/log/$', 'mydjangoapp.myFunction')

function

def myFunction(request) 
  param1 = request.GET.get('param1')

Answer 2

Django's URL patterns only match the path component of a URL. You're trying to match on the querystring as well, this is why you're having trouble. Your first regex does what you wanted, except that you should only ever be matching the path component.

In your view you can access the querystring via request.GET