Django disable trailing slash - django

Question

I'm using Django 2.0.6 (using the development server for now) and am having issues with automatic trailing slashes being appended to URL's.
My goal is to have a URL structure as follows:
/teams/ => Index view for all teams
/teams/create => Form view to create a new team (note the lack of trailing slash)
/teams/xyz/ => Index view for team with slug xyz
/teams/xyz/delete => Form view to delete team xyz (require confirmation, etc)
The problem is that, somewhere in Django framework, a trailing slash is automatically being appended to 'create' URL's. Because of this, the router the attempts to load the team index page for a team with slug 'create'. Obviously, a workaround would be to stop using slugs and use ID's, but that seems like an unnecessary concession.
Looking around, it seems that setting APPEND_SLASH to False should tell CommonMiddleware to stop appending slashes, but this didn't help.
Is there a way to easily accomplish my URL scheme and, if not, what's the idiomatic Django way to do this?
urls.py:
from django.urls import path
urlpatterns = [
path('create', views.create, name='create'),
path('<slug:team_slug>/', views.view, name='view'),
path('<slug:team_slug>/invite/', views.invite, name='invite')
]
settings.py:
APPEND_SLASH = False
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',
'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',
]
Links are correctly generated with the following:
<a class="btn btn-primary" href="{% url 'teams:create' %}">New Team</a>
Which translates to: /teams/create
However, when the user clicks the link, it appears to be immediately redirected to /teams/create/

Answer 1

Create a directory named common in your project directory.
Create __init__.py and redirect.py in common directory.
# redirect.py
from django.conf import settings
from django.core import urlresolvers
from django import http
'''
Based on django/middleware/common.py
Django convention is to add trailing slashes to most urls
This method does the opposite and redirects trailing slashes to the
no trailing slash url if it exists
'''
class RedirectTrailingSlashMiddleware(object):
def process_request(self, request):
if settings.APPEND_SLASH:
return
if '/admin' in request.path:
settings.APPEND_SLASH = True
return
new_url = old_url = request.path
if (old_url.endswith('/')):
urlconf = getattr(request, 'urlconf', None)
if (not urlresolvers.is_valid_path(request.path_info, urlconf) and
urlresolvers.is_valid_path(request.path_info[:-1], urlconf)):
new_url = new_url[:-1]
if settings.DEBUG and request.method == 'POST':
raise RuntimeError((""
"You called this URL via POST, but the URL ends "
"in a slash and you have APPEND_SLASH set. Django can't "
"redirect to the non-slash URL while maintaining POST data. "
"Change your form to point to %s (note no trailing "
"slash), or set APPEND_SLASH=True in your Django "
"settings.") % (new_url))
if new_url == old_url:
# No redirects required.
return
return http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(new_url)
In your settings.py, add:
MIDDLEWARE = [
'common.redirect.RedirectTrailingSlashMiddleware',
# Add as first element
]
Source/credit: http://bunwich.blogspot.com/2013/06/django-change-trailing-slash-url.html