Cannot use any special regex char (such as ".") `api_name` because it is ambiguously/incompatibly used as both string and regex.

[kennknowles]

There does not seem to be a consistent way to achieve an API named "v0.4".

• api = Api(api_name="v0.4") does not work because the name is injected into the urlpatterns as a regex.
• api = Api(api_name=r"v0\.4") does not work because the api_name is used in reverse lookups, where it needs to be "v0.4" not r"v0.4".

From the way it is used right now, and because it hardly makes sense to match multiple names, I believe the intent is for it is be a plain string, so it should be passed through re.escape prior to putting it in the urlpatterns, here: https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/blob/master/tastypie/api.py#L103

Am I correct? Feedback?

Kenn

[kennknowles]

The precise link to the part of the commit relevant for this ticket is https://github.com/dimagi/core-hq/blob/master/corehq/apps/api/urls.py#L51