custom admin urls routing wrong?

[stygmate]

in one of my child model i have a change password custom urls

    def get_urls(self):
        return [
                   path(
                       '<path:object_id>/password/',
                       self.admin_site.admin_view(self.mymodel_change_password),
                       name='mymodel_password_change',
                   ),
               ] + super().get_urls()

and when i try to access:

/admin/importers/importateur/1/password/

the url become:

/admin/importers/importateur/1/password/change/

and 1/password is catched as object id for the change view

Any help ?

[stygmate]

anyone ?

[JohananOppongAmoateng]

The issue is caused by using <path:object_id>, which is greedy and captures 1/password as the object ID, so Django routes it to the change view.

Fix: don’t use <path:object_id> in admin URLs. Use a non-greedy converter instead.

def get_urls(self):
    return [
        path(
            '<int:object_id>/password/',
            self.admin_site.admin_view(self.mymodel_change_password),
            name='mymodel_password_change',
        ),
    ] + super().get_urls()

This prevents password from being swallowed by the change view and resolves the URL correctly.

[JohananOppongAmoateng]

@bckohan I think we can convert this into a discussion