How do you give a wagtail/django Page a custom url to serve at?

Question

In wagtail/django how do you make a basic wagtail Page model, create the html template, and then tell that model to serve as a view for a specific url?

from django.db import models
from wagtail.wagtailcore.models import Page

class MyPage(Page):
  title = models.CharField(blank=True, null=True, max_length=255)
  #...

I want the url to register like

url(r'^monkey/(?P<slug>[A-Za-z0-9]+)$', ...)

But I don't have a common urls.py folder its stored outside of the project. I tried using the RoutablePageMixin, but I believe that serves for subpages. I also know where to store the html template within the structure so that is not a problem.

Answer 1

You might want something like:

from django.http import Http404
from django.views import View
from wagtail.core.views import serve

class WagtailPageServeView(View):
    """
    A default way to serve up wagtail pages in urls
    """

    wagtail_slug = None

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.wagtail_slug:
            return serve(request, self.wagtail_slug)
        else:
            raise Http404(
                f"WagtailPageServeView missing 'wagtail_slug'. Cannot serve "
                f"request.path: {request.path}"
            )

Then you can do something like this in urls.py:

urlpatterns += [
    re_path(r'^$', WagtailPageServeView.as_view(wagtail_slug='/'), name='home'),
]