Redirect and reverse()

Now, let's create the redirect in our post_create View function. It would be logical to redirect to the list of posts after creating a new one.

Redirection in the web refers to the process of forwarding or redirecting a user from one web page to another.

To create a redirect, we need the URL to the post_list View function. Our URL patterns:

We need the "post-list" URL pattern. App name is "NewApp". We can use the reverse() function imported from the django.urls module:

Note

The reverse() function сonverts a URL pattern to a URL address.

To use this function, we need to pass to this function following:

In this way, we will get the URL to the corresponding View. In our case is the post-list URL pattern from NewApp app:

The url variable contains the URL to the post_list View function:

Now, we can create the redirect to this URL using HttpResponseRedirect() object imported from from django.http module:

The final code of the post_create view is the following:

Now, we can create the redirection in our Views!

Note

Be careful with circular redirection, which is dangerous as an infinity loop.