Store Boolean Variable In Url Dispatching

The following url definition should pass whether results/ is present in the url: url(r'^(?P[0-9]+)/(?P(results/)?)shorten/$', views.shorten, name=

Solution 1:

You could have two URL patterns and pass results in the kwargs:

url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/results/shorten/$', views.shorten, {'results': True}, name='shorten'),
url(r'^(?P<question_id>[0-9]+)/shorten/$', views.shorten, {'results': False}, name='shorten'),

If you don't want to do this, then there isn't currently a simple way to cast the results string to a boolean value. You could write a middleware or decorator, but that would be overkill.