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Django: First Dive
Django: First Dive
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.
1. Which function we need use to get the URL address via URL pattern?
2. Which object is used for redirection?
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