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Why Am I Getting a NoReverseMatch Error for the 'favourite' URL?

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I'm encountering a NoReverseMatch error in my Django project with the following message:

"Reverse for ‘favourite’ with arguments ‘('',)’ not found. 1 pattern(s) tried: ['music/(?P<album_id>[0-9]+)/favourite/\Z']"

This error appears during template rendering in C:\<Folder>\<Project>\userapp\templates\userapp\details.html at line 11. The form action is defined as:

DJANGO
{% url 'userapp:favourite' album.id %}

Here are the relevant parts of my configuration:

urls.py

PYTHON
app_name = 'userapp'

urlpatterns = [
    ......
    path('music/<int:album_id>/favourite/', views.favourite, name='favourite')
]

views.py

PYTHON
def favourite(request, album_id):
    albums = get_object_or_404(Album, pk=album_id)
    try:
        selected_song = albums.song_set.get(pk=request.POST['song'])   
    except (KeyError, Song.DoesNotExist):
        return render(request, 'userapp/details.html', {
            'albums': albums,
            'error_message': "You did not select a valid song",
        })
    else:
        selected_song.is_favourite = True
        selected_song.save()
        return render(request, 'userapp/details.html', {'albums': albums})

details.html

DJANGO
{% if error_message %}
    <p><strong>{{ error_message }}</strong></p>
{% endif %}

line 11 - <form action ="{% url 'userapp:favourite' album.id %}" method="post"> 
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% for song in albums.song_set.all %}
        <input type="radio" id="song{{ forloop.counter }}" name="song" value="{{ song.id }}"> 
        <label for="song{{ forloop.counter }}"> 
            {{ song.song_title }}
            {% if song.is_favourite %}
                <img src="https://i.imgur.com/b9b13Rd.png"/> 
            {% endif %}
        </label>

    {% endfor %}
    <input type="submit" value="Favourite"> 
</form>

The URL pattern expects an integer parameter album_id but it seems that the template might be passing an empty value, as indicated by the arguments being ('',). I suspect this might be due to using album.id instead of a correctly defined variable such as albums.id in the context.

Has anyone encountered this issue before or have suggestions on how to ensure the correct album_id is passed to the URL?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 9 days ago

Fixing the NoReverseMatch Error in Django

You've correctly identified the issue. The error message indicates that an empty value is being passed as the album_id parameter to the URL pattern, which is expecting an integer.

The problem is a variable name mismatch between your view and template. In your view function, you're passing a context variable named albums (plural):

PYTHON
return render(request, 'userapp/details.html', {'albums': albums})

But in your template, you're trying to access a variable named album (singular):

DJANGO
<form action ="{% url 'userapp:favourite' album.id %}" method="post">

Solution

You have two options to fix this:

Option 1: Change the template to use the correct variable name

Update line 11 in your template to use albums.id instead of album.id:

DJANGO
<form action ="{% url 'userapp:favourite' albums.id %}" method="post">

Option 2: Change the view to use the variable name expected by the template

Alternatively, you can modify your view function to pass the context with the variable name album instead of albums:

PYTHON
def favourite(request, album_id):
    album = get_object_or_404(Album, pk=album_id)
    try:
        selected_song = album.song_set.get(pk=request.POST['song'])   
    except (KeyError, Song.DoesNotExist):
        return render(request, 'userapp/details.html', {
            'album': album,
            'error_message': "You did not select a valid song",
        })
    else:
        selected_song.is_favourite = True
        selected_song.save()
        return render(request, 'userapp/details.html', {'album': album})

If you choose Option 2, you'll also need to update your template to use album instead of albums in the for loop:

DJANGO
{% for song in album.song_set.all %}

Either solution will fix the NoReverseMatch error by ensuring that the correct album ID is passed to the URL pattern.

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Why Am I Getting a NoReverseMatch Error for the 'favourite' URL?

1 Answer

Fixing the NoReverseMatch Error in Django

Solution

Option 1: Change the template to use the correct variable name

Option 2: Change the view to use the variable name expected by the template

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