url with multiple optional arguments

Question

right now I have a view to show info about some tickets and I'm trying to add a functionality to filter those tickets.

Say I will have 4 filters:

• Date
• Owner
• Category
• Status

Category Status

I want to give the option to use some of those filters, all or none, the thing is I'm kinda lost in how can I make it work in the urls. So far I found that you can add some optional arguments but they appear in some sort of succession like:

/May/Jack/Gas/Accepted

But if I only select 2 filters like /Jack/Accepted/ it grabs the filters incorrectly.

Is there a way I can achieve this? Or some other method I can use instead of this. Ty

Answer 1

Don't try and do this with URL arguments. Instead, use querystring arguments. The URL should be in the form:

my_path/?date=May&owner=Jack&category=Gas&status=accepted

and the URL pattern is just:

url(r'^my_path/$', views.my_view, 'my_url'),

and in the view you can access request.GET['date'] etc.