Silent failure if model name is incorrect

[andreyshipilov]

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I have an object in the context named experience and all the attributes from this objects are shown correctly on the page. Although this:

{% load shorturl %}

{% shorturl experience %}

Produces an empty result. shorturls is in INSTALLED_APPS and url('^short/', include('shorturls.urls')) is in urls.py. The object has get_absolute_url() method which works correctly.

Am I missing something?

[andreyshipilov]

My bad. SHORTEN_MODELS key values should be lowercase.

SHORTEN_MODELS = {
    'E': 'experiences.photo', #  Not Photo.
}

[bfirsh]

Hm - this should probably throw an error though, shouldn't it?

[andreyshipilov]

@andreyshipilov Most likely, but not in templates.

[bfirsh]

Indeed... it should probably validate the configuration on bootup to make sure the models actually exist.