Daily Dev Notes 2024/06/11

First crack at static pages tonight. It's a bit rough around the edges but worked OK.

Not too happy with it right now, so will hold off committing code until I can figure it out. But so far I have:

• a PagesManager for all the page-related model code
• a template tag to display a page link: {% page_link "about" outer="li" %}
• and modified the post_detail view to first look for a matching page before trying to get the post.

This last point feels a bit messy, so will need to think this through a bit more. Right now it looks like this:

    try:
        page: Post = Post.page_objects.get_published_page_by_path(path)
    except ValueError:
        try:
            post = Post.post_objects.get_published_post_by_path(path)
        except ValueError as exc:
            msg = "Post not found"
            raise Http404(msg) from exc

I don't think I've used a nested try block before, and something smells a bit off with it. Will keep digging...