Django redirect /D/<anything> to /d/<anything>-CodePudding

I'm looking for a way to redirect any url that start with /D/ to the same URL with lowercased /d/.

/D/<anything_including_url_params>

/d/<anything_including_url_params>

I literally only want to redirect urls that start with /D/ - not /DABC/ etc...

The suffix can also be empty, eg. /D/ > /d/

Is there a way to do that in Django? It is for a third-party app with urls included in projects urls.

The alternative is to use re_path and change:

path("d/", include(...))

re_path(r"^[dD]/$", include(...))

but I'd rather do a redirect instead of this.

CodePudding user response：

Any reason why you can't use a RedirectView at all?

As per the docs:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/class-based-views/base/#redirectview

You can register this as the literal /D/ but redirect to /d/ using the view name and passing on and args or kwargs.

CodePudding user response：

You can make a view that directs with:

# some_app/urls.py

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

# …

urlpatterns = [
    path('d/', include(…)),
    path(
        'D/<path:path>',
        RedirectView.as_view(
            url='/d/%(path)s', query_string=True, permanent=True
        ),
    ),
]

Note that a redirect will however always result in a GET request, so even if the original request to D/something is a POST request for example, it will make a GET request to d/something.