Routing with multiple applications failing

Using Django
1

hi,
I have followed the Bezcoder DRF / CRUD tutorial with the informations from the “Django for APis” book of William Vincent.
While I have 1 project containing 1 app : it’s ok. I can curl the API fine.

The problem came after I’ve added a 2nd application: an errr is coming because I think Django can’t know which view belongs to which app: app1 or app2

api/urls.py line 9 in …
url(r’^app1$', views.app1_list),
AttributeError : module ‘App2.views’ has no attribute ‘app1_list’

from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import url
from .views import  app1APIView, app2APIView
from app1 import views
from app2 import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', app2APIView.as_view()),
    url(r'^app1$', views.app1_list),
    url(r'^app1/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', views.app1_detail),
    url(r'^app1/enabled$', views.app1_list_enabled),
    url(r'^app2$', views.app2_list),
    url(r'^app2/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)$', views.app2_detail),
    url(r'^app2/enabled$', views.app2_list_enabled)

This code is working only if I comment app1 or app2 but not both

2

You’ve got a couple different ways of handling this.

My recommendation would be to just import app1.views and app2.views, and prefix your urls with the corresponding app name:
url('^app1$', app1.views.app1_list),

3

Thanks @KenWhitesell for you answer.
However, doing

from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import url

from .views import app1APIView, app2APIView

from app1 import views
from app2 import views

urlpatterns = [
#path(‘’, app2APIView.as_view()),
url(r’^app1$‘, app1.views.app1_list),
url(r’^app1/(?P[0-9]+)$‘, app1.views.app1_detail),
url(r’^app1/enabled$‘, app1.views.app1_list_enabled),
url(r’^app2$‘, app1.views.app2_list),
url(r’^app2/(?P[0-9]+)$‘, app1.views.app2_detail),
url(r’^app2/enabled$', app1.views.app2_list_enabled)

ends with error " app1 is not defined"
while commenting all the app2 references and not prefixing app1 but just :

urlpatterns = [
#path(‘’, app2APIView.as_view()),
url(r’^app1$‘, views.app1_list),
url(r’^app1/(?P[0-9]+)$‘, views.app1_detail),
url(r’^app1/enabled$‘, views.app1_list_enabled),
#url(r’^app2$‘, app1.views.app2_list),
#url(r’^app2/(?P[0-9]+)$‘, app1.views.app2_detail),
#url(r’^app2/enabled$', app1.views.app2_list_enabled)

is ok.

4

I think you overlooked this part of my answer:

5

OK but if I do that

“url is not defined”

arizes which is normal.

6

My fault, my previous reply wasn’t clear. You still need your other imports. What you need to change is the from app1 import views to import app1.views (and the same for app2)

7

@KenWhitesell no fault is in play when it’s about helping.

And by the way, this solves the issue.
thanks I have been searching in many (wrong it seems) places for this.

Tell me if I have to change the title or something to mark it as solved.

8

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