Programatically retrieve Django View names from urlconfs

django_url_viewnames.py

from django.urls import URLResolver, URLPattern, include
from django.conf import settings
from importlib import import_module


def view_names_from_urlpatterns(urlpatterns, names=None):
    """ Get all view names specified by a set of given urlpatterns

    # import some urlpatterns
    >>> from myapp.urls import urlpatterns
    >>> urlpatterns
    [<URLPattern '' [name='home']>, <URLPattern 'contact/' [name='contact']>,
    <URLPattern 'items/<slug:slug>/' [name='item_detail']> ]
    >>> view_names_from_urlpatterns(urlpatterns)
    ['home', 'contact', 'item_detail']

    Args:
        urlpatterns (list): List of valid Django urlpatterns
        names: Used to recursively build list -> ignore
    Returns:
        (list of str): View names
    """
    if names is None:
        names = []
    for pattern in urlpatterns:
        if isinstance(pattern, URLResolver):
            view_names_from_urlpatterns(pattern.url_patterns, names)
        elif isinstance(pattern, URLPattern):
            names.append(pattern.callback.__name__)
    return names


def view_names_from_urlconf(module):
    """ Get all viewnames specified in the urlconf of an app.
    Retrieves urlconf similarly to django `include()` see:
    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/_modules/django/conf/urls/#include

    Args:
        module (str): urlconf module location i.e. `'myapp.urls'`
    """
    urlconf_module = import_module(module)
    patterns = urlconf_module.urlpatterns
    return view_names_from_urlpatterns(patterns)


def get_all_view_names():
    all_urlpatterns = __import__(settings.ROOT_URLCONF).urls.urlpatterns
    return view_names_from_urlpatterns(all_urlpatterns)