AssertionError: View function mapping is overwriti

Question

Does anyone know why I can't overwrite an existing endpoint function if i have two url rules like this

app.add_url_rule('/',
                 view_func=Main.as_view('main'),
                 methods=["GET"])

app.add_url_rule('/<page>/',
                 view_func=Main.as_view('main'),
                 methods=["GET"])

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "demo.py", line 20, in <module> methods=["GET"]) 
  File ".../python2.6/site-packages/flask‌​/app.py", 
    line 62, in wrapper_func return f(self, *args, **kwargs) 
  File ".../python2.6/site-packages/flask‌​/app.py", 
    line 984, in add_url_rule 'existing endpoint function: %s' % endpoint)  
AssertionError: View function mapping is overwriting an existing endpoint 
    function: main

Answer 1

For users that use @app.route it is better to use the key-argument endpoint rather then chaning the value of __name__ like Roei Bahumi stated. Taking his example will be:

@app.route("/path1", endpoint='func1')
@exception_handler
def func1():
    pass

@app.route("/path2", endpoint='func2')
@exception_handler
def func2():
    pass