django users - get_absolute_url() problem

[BillLeeLee]

Hopefully someone can help me see what I'm doing wrong here.

So I have a django model that contains this code:

from django.db import models
from django.db.models import permalink
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from time import strftime

    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    entry_date = models.DateTimeField()
    abstract = models.TextField(help_text='A short summary about this entry')
    content = models.TextField(help_text='The main article goes here')
    tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag)
    slug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=('title',), 
                            help_text='Automagically built from the title', 
                            unique_for_date='entry_date')
    author = models.ForeignKey(User)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('-entry_date',)
        get_latest_by = 'entry_date'

    class Admin:
        list_display = ('entry_date', 'title', 'author')
        list_filter = ('author', 'entry_date')
        search_fields = ['title', 'summary', 'body']

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return ('django.views.generic.date_based.object_detail', None, {
            'year': strftime('%Y', self.entry_date),
            'month': strftime('%b', self.entry_date).lower(),
            'day': strftime('%d', self.entry_date),
            'slug': self.slug})

    get_absolute_url = permalink(get_absolute_url)

And this template code that tests it:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
    {% for entry in latest %}
            <div class="post">
                <div class="posthead"> <!-- begin class posthead -->
                    <div>{{ entry.get_absolute_url }}</div>
                    <div class="title"><!-- <a href="{{ entry.get_absolute_url }}">-->{{ entry.title }}<!-- </a>--></div>
                    <div><span class="entrydate">{{ entry.entry_date|date:"D M d Y G:i" }}</span></div>
                    <div class="byline">Posted by: <a href="mailto:{{ entry.author.email }}">{{ entry.author.first_name}} {{ entry.author.last_name }}</a></div>
                </div> <!-- end div class posthead 1 -->
            </div> <!-- end div post -->
            <p>{{ entry.abstract|linebreaksbr }}</p>
    {% endfor %}
{% endblock %}

However, the entry.get_absolute_url gets nothing. It's just an empty string.

Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[BillLeeLee]

Problem solved.

I was using strftime wrong each way I tried. I thought I should have been using the time module's strftime, but I didn't realize I was using a DateTime object. Should have realized from it being called DateTimeField.

Addtionally, I discovered that if the url you would be returning does not conform to any url in your url conf, then you see this behavior. Curious.