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breadcrumbs

a trail of links to higher-level documents. Represents levels of given URL path. For example, URL /news/2010/oct/ corresponds to a document with heading “October 2010” and this path of breadcrumbs:

  • /news/ “News”
  • /news/2010/ “2010 news”
crumb resolver

a function that takes arguments request and url and returns either a navigation.helpers.Crumb instance or None. Can be registered by using the decorator navigation.resolvers.crumb_resolver():

@crumb_resolver
def custom_resolver(request, url):
    if url == '/secret/url/':
        return Crumb(url, 'Hello')
    else:
        return None  # pass to another resolver, if any

If current URL is /secret/url/, then the resolver will be called for both /secret/ and /secret/url. The resolver may not be called if another resolver did not return None for given URL (i.e. first resolver wins).

If all resolvers returned None for a URL, then a dummy crumb is created. It can be told from a regular crumb in templates this way:

{% if crumb.is_dummy %}
    <a href="{{ crumb.url }}">(???)</a>
{% else %}
    <a href="{{ crumb.url }}">{{ crumb }}</a>
{% endif %}

This will produce the path of breadcrumbs like “(???) -> Hello” if /secret/url/ could be resolved but /secret/ couldn’t.

sections
First-level URLs explicitly listed as NAVIGATION_SECTIONS setting (optional; only required by get_sections()).

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