Turbogears. Writing controller methods

Question

The index method is the start point of any TurboGears controller class. Each of the URLs

localhost:8080
localhost:8080/
localhost:8080/index

is mapped to the RootController.index() method.

How can I map localhost:8080 and localhost:8080/ to the .index() but localhost:8080/index and localhost:8080/index.html to the ._lookup()?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '12 at 17:53

Don't place any index method inside your controller and just use _lookup returning the right controller depending on what you want to do.

This will return 'INDEX1' for http://localhost:8080 and http://localhost:8080/ while returning 'INDEX2' for http://localhost:8080/index and http://localhost:8080/index.html

class IndexController(BaseController):
    @expose()
    def index(self, *args, **kw):
        return 'INDEX2'

class NoPathController(BaseController):
    @expose()
    def index(self, *args, **kw):
        return 'INDEX1'

class RootController(BaseController):
    @expose()
    def _lookup(self, *remainder, **params):
        if not remainder:
            return NoPathController(), remainder

        return IndexController(), remainder

Turbogears. Writing controller methods

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