Url Pattern giving me a url mismatch error

March 21, 2022

url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/remove/$',
        WishlistRemoveView.as_view(), name='wishlist_remove'),


<form action="{% url 'wishlist_remove' pk=item.wishlistitem_set.all.0.pk %}" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <input type="submit" value="{% trans 'Remove' %}">
</form>

When i click on the remove button I get the following error:-

NoReverseMatch at /product/7/
Reverse for 'wishlist_remove' with keyword arguments '{'pk': ''}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['(?P<pk>\\d+)/remove/$']

Something is wrong

>Solution :

The reason this does not work is because for the given item, your wishlistitem_set.all() is empty, so there is no WishlistItem to remove.

You can make a check with:

{% with wishlistitems=item.wishlistitem_set.all %}
  {% if wishlistitems %}
    <form action="{% url 'wishlist_remove' pk=wishlistitems.0.pk %}" method="post">
      {% csrf_token %}
      <input type="submit" value="{% trans 'Remove' %}">
    </form>
  {% endif %}
{% endwith %}

It is however a bit "odd" to only work with the first item: why should there be a button for the first item, and not the second for example?

Note: As of django-3.1, url(…) ^[Django-doc] is
deprecated in favor of re_path(…) ^[Django-doc] and has been removed in django-4.0.
Furthermore a new syntax for paths has been introduced with path converters: you
use path(…) ^[Django-doc] for that.