Django URL template match (everything except pattern)
django
Solution
The usual way to go about this would be to order the route declarations so that the catch-all route is shadowed by the `/api` route, i.e.:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^api/', include('api.urls')),
url(r'^other/', 'views.other', name='other'),
url(r'^.*$', 'views.catchall', name='catch-all'),
)
Alternatively, if for some reason you really need to skip some routes but cannot do it with the set of regexes supported by Django, you could define a custom pattern matcher class:
from django.core.urlresolvers import RegexURLPattern
class NoAPIPattern(RegexURLPattern):
def resolve(self, path):
if not path.startswith('api'):
return super(NoAPIPattern, self).resolve(path)
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^other/', 'views.other', name='other'),
NoAPIPattern(r'^.*$', 'views.catchall', name='catch-all'),
)
Problem
I need a django regex that will actually work for the url router to do the following: Match everything that does not contain "/api" in the route. The following does not work because django can't reverse (?! ``` r'^(?!api) ```