Django 2.0, URL Routes Causing Max Recursion with check_method - django

Question

I'm totally new to Django, and I'm having a problem adding a Django "app" to a created Django "project". I'm using Docker and Docker-Compose and when I try to build and spin up my instance with the "documents" app added it throws maximum recursion errors.
This problem is NOT present if I remove the documents app from the project, so there's obviously something misconfigured with my app.
Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong to set my default URL ('') to the Index view in documents?
Directory Structure
app/
|-django_nlp/
|-settings.py
|-urls.py
|-wsgi.py
|-documents/
|-templates/
|-index.html
|-apps.py
|-views.py
|-Dockerfile
|-docker-compose.yml
|-manage.py
django_nlp/settings.py
import os
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
# /usr/src/app
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'ixoz#2d4=m#k#%1#!hhr2ei82t4x$$e)n9oxrq66mzq556k59#'
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'documents'
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_nlp.urls'
#Get the absolute path of the settings.py file's directory
BASE_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__ ))
# /usr/src/app/django_nlp
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
# Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or
# "C:/www/django/templates".
# Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
# Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
#Add Templates to the absolute directory
# os.path.join(BASE_PATH, "templates")
)
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
BASE_DIR,
BASE_PATH
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_nlp.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
},
]
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
django_nlp/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
# from documents import views
# import documents
from documents.views import Index
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^', Index.as_view())
# url(r'$^', documents.views.index, name='index')
]
documents/views.py
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
# def index(request):
# return HttpResponse('Hello, welcome to the index page.')
class Index(TemplateView):
template_name = "text-form.html"
data = {'text': ''}
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form = self.form_class(data=self.data)
return render(request, self.template_name, data)
Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

If you working on Django 2.0, you should read this docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/urls/, the url configuration in this version has changes. But, if you realy want to use regex in Django 2.0, you can change:
from django.conf.urls import url
to;
from django.urls import re_path
example in your case;
from django.conf.urls import url
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^', Index.as_view())
# url(r'$^', documents.views.index, name='index')
]
to;
from django.urls import re_path
urlpatterns = [
re_path(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
re_path(r'^$', Index.as_view()),
]