Installation

Add "wagtail.contrib.routable_page" to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...

    "wagtail.contrib.routable_page",
]

The basics

To use RoutablePageMixin, you need to make your class inherit from both :class:wagtail.contrib.routable_page.models.RoutablePageMixin and wagtail.models.Page, then define some view methods and decorate them with path or re_path.

These view methods behave like ordinary Django view functions, and must return an HttpResponse object; typically this is done through a call to django.shortcuts.render.

The path and re_path decorators from wagtail.contrib.routable_page.models.path are similar to the Django django.urls path and re_path functions. The former allows the use of plain paths and converters while the latter lets you specify your URL patterns as regular expressions.

Here’s an example of an EventIndexPage with three views, assuming that an EventPage model with an event_date field has been defined elsewhere:

import datetime
from django.http import JsonResponse
from wagtail.fields import RichTextField
from wagtail.models import Page
from wagtail.contrib.routable_page.models import RoutablePageMixin, path


class EventIndexPage(RoutablePageMixin, Page):

    # Routable pages can have fields like any other - here we would
    # render the intro text on a template with {{ page.intro|richtext }}
    intro = RichTextField()

    @path('') # will override the default Page serving mechanism
    def current_events(self, request):
        """
        View function for the current events page
        """
        events = EventPage.objects.live().filter(event_date__gte=datetime.date.today())

        # NOTE: We can use the RoutablePageMixin.render() method to render
        # the page as normal, but with some of the context values overridden
        return self.render(request, context_overrides={
            'title': "Current events",
            'events': events,
        })

    @path('past/')
    def past_events(self, request):
        """
        View function for the past events page
        """
        events = EventPage.objects.live().filter(event_date__lt=datetime.date.today())

        # NOTE: We are overriding the template here, as well as few context values
        return self.render(
            request,
            context_overrides={
                'title': "Past events",
                'events': events,
            },
            template="events/event_index_historical.html",
        )

    # Multiple routes!
    @path('year/<int:year>/')
    @path('year/current/')
    def events_for_year(self, request, year=None):
        """
        View function for the events for year page
        """
        if year is None:
            year = datetime.date.today().year

        events = EventPage.objects.live().filter(event_date__year=year)

        return self.render(request, context_overrides={
            'title': "Events for %d" % year,
            'events': events,
        })

    @re_path(r'^year/(\d+)/count/$')
    def count_for_year(self, request, year=None):
        """
        View function that returns a simple JSON response that
        includes the number of events scheduled for a specific year
        """
        events = EventPage.objects.live().filter(event_date__year=year)

        # NOTE: The usual template/context rendering process is irrelevant
        # here, so we'll just return a HttpResponse directly
        return JsonResponse({'count': events.count()})

@path('next/')
def next_event(self, request):
    """
    Display the page for the next event
    """
    future_events = EventPage.objects.live().filter(event_date__gt=datetime.date.today())
    next_event = future_events.order_by('event_date').first()

    return next_event.serve(request)

    # The URL name defaults to the view method name.
    >>> event_page.reverse_subpage('events_for_year', args=(2015, ))
    'year/2015/'

>>> event_page.url + event_page.reverse_subpage('events_for_year', args=(2015, ))
'/events/year/2015/'

>>> event_page.full_url + event_page.reverse_subpage('events_for_year', args=(2015, ))
'http://example.com/events/year/2015/'

from wagtail.models import Page
from wagtail.contrib.routable_page.models import RoutablePageMixin, route


class EventPage(RoutablePageMixin, Page):
    ...

    @re_path(r'^year/(\d+)/$', name='year')
    def events_for_year(self, request, year):
        """
        View function for the events for year page
        """
        ...

>>> event_page.url + event_page.reverse_subpage('year', args=(2015, ))
'/events/year/2015/'

The RoutablePageMixin class

Example:

url = page.url + page.reverse_subpage('events_for_year', kwargs={'year': '2014'})

The routablepageurl template tag

Example:

{% load wagtailroutablepage_tags %}

{% routablepageurl page "feed" %}
{% routablepageurl page "archive" 2014 08 14 %}
{% routablepageurl page "food" foo="bar" baz="quux" %}