Access named URL parameter in Template or Middleware

Question

In my url conf, I have several URL's which have the same named parameter, user_id. Is it possible to access this parameter either in a middleware - so I can generically pass it on to the context_data - or in the template itself?

Sample URL conf to illustrate the question:

url(r'^b/(?P<user_id>[0-9]+)/edit?$', user.edit.EditUser.as_view(), name='user_edit'),
url(r'^b/(?P<user_id>[0-9]+)/delete?$', user.delete.DeleteUser.as_view(), name='user_delete')

Answer 1

If you need this data in the template, just override your view's get_context_data method:

class MyView(View):
    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MyView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['user_id'] = self.kwargs.get('user_id')
        return context

Answer 2

For class based views, the view is already available in the context, so you dont need to do anything on the view side. In the template, just do the following:

{{ view.kwargs.user_id }}

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