blog.notmyidea.org/content/code/2024-02-22-django-urls.md

title	tags
Using uuids in URLs in a Django app	django, urls, uuid

After adding a regexp for uuids (which are quite hard to regexp for), I discovered that Django [offers path converters](https://docs.djangoproject.com/ en/5.0/topics/http/urls/#path-converters), making this a piece of cake.

I was using old school re_path paths in my urls.py, but it's possible to replace them with path, like this:

url_patterns = (
    path(
        "datalayer/<int:map_id>/<uuid:pk>/",
        views.DataLayerView.as_view(),
        name="datalayer_view",
    ),
)

A few default path converters are defined (str, int, slug, uuid, path), but it's also possible to define your own, as specified in the docs.