Adding a CMS to Your Pyramid Web App Transcripts
Chapter: Redirects and the admin section
Lecture: Editing an existing redirect
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we have our add redirect working, but it's time to edit as well. Because what if we make mistake? What if we want to change our minds?
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So for over here in our admin section in the redirects, we click on Edit. Well, ah, 404.
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And what we're trying to go to is '/admin/edit_redirect' And the ID of that object. Okay, well, that's pretty easy. We should build to do this.
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We've already done it for adding we should be able to edit it.
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There's actually not that much difference. Now noticed over here. We have an edit re direct route already.
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And it's going to be that one that we saw pass along is gonna come through is the redirect I d that we've already kind of been working with.
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So let's go and work in that here. Now I'm going to do something terrible and make it better.
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Terrible thing is, I'm going to make an exact copy of this and just repeat it and rename a few things. We're going to name that to 'edit'.
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And why is this terrible? Well, all the code, the order hiding down here is gonna be an exact copy in both places.
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That's not great. But there's so much similarity that let's just start this way and I'm gonna improve it. So here we go. Edit, and edit. Edit.
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Take that away from both of them. Actually, you don't need that would process. bit anymore.
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Over here, instead of 'create', we're going to call 'update' the redirect, and we need to give it one more thing at the beginning.
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The redirect ID. Because we need to find it by the ID and then make a change to it. Okay, So what's going to write this function first?
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Gotta write, Write them somewhere. So, yeah, redirect ID names. short url You're all these are all good.
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So how are we gonna find the one by ID? Let's go look at our data real quick.
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The each have an idea that gets set here, so it's not gonna be very efficient when we get to the database.
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It's gonna be a lot better, but we just do this And we'll just do a quick little sort here. Going through all the items. So we'll say,
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'for k, v in big_data_redirects.items()'
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So this will give us the key, which will be the short url, and the value, let's change that to 'r' for the redirect.
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Now, on that item, we're gonna have the ID. So here will say, 'if r.get(ID) == redirect_id'
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And redirect is going to be just that thing. That's perfect. And we can break out of our loop.
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Super and then down here instead returning 'None' we'll just return 'redirect'.
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Alright Well, that looks pretty good. You could even give it a little test down here in a Python console. Actually Let's do this in two parts here.
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let's have the get_redirect_by_id.
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That's this one here will say get_redirect_by_id. 'if not redirect: return'. just out of here. There's nothing to do.
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Otherwise we're gonna say redirect of name equals name and just do it for all of them.
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There you go. That should do it. We're gonna get it back, make those changes to it and just stick it back in the database, the "database".
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Our little in memory thing that we're working with until we get to storing this in the database better.
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All right, Now, let's go over here and restart this. We'll get it by ID. We have a one. Look that. Perfect! We have a two. There it is our bytes.
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Do we have a three? No, we don't. Give us nothing. Excellent. Okay, so it looks like our little get that is changing. So perfect.
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We're still calling up here. Update by ID. This should work pretty good. Now, surprisingly, that might be all we got to do for this part.