How to reverse a name to a absolute url in django template?

Question

{% url url_name %} gives a relative name.

How can I do something like {% absolute_url url_name %} so that it returns url with base (including port if present)?

Answer 1

There are different solutions. Write your own templatetag and use HttpRequest.build_absolute_uri(location). But another way, and a bit hacky.

<a href="{{ request.scheme }}://{{ request.get_host }}{% url url_name %}">click here</a> 

Edit: So I'm kinda confused this still gets me upvotes. I currently find this really hacky. Writing an own template tags has gotten a lot easier, so hereby the example for your own tag.

from django import template from django.urls import reverse  register = template.Library()  @register.simple_tag(takes_context=True) def abs_url(context, view_name, *args, **kwargs):     # Could add except for KeyError, if rendering the template      # without a request available.     return context['request'].build_absolute_uri(         reverse(view_name, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)     )  @register.filter def as_abs_url(path, request):     return request.build_absolute_uri(path) 

Examples:

<a href='{% abs_url view_name obj.uuid %}'>  {% url view_name obj.uuid as view_url %} <a href='{{ view_url|as_abs_url:request }}'>