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Williams
Williams

Reputation: 4328

What the difference between using Django redirect and HttpResponseRedirect?

Which is it better to use generally?

Is there any advantage to writing:

return redirect(my_url)

over:

return HttpResponseRedirect(my_url)

Or is it a direct alias? Is there any difference? Which is more pythonic/django-nic?

Upvotes: 79

Views: 25086

Answers (2)

Marwan Alsabbagh
Marwan Alsabbagh

Reputation: 26808

There is a difference between the two:

In the case of HttpResponseRedirect the first argument can only be a url.

redirect which will ultimately return a HttpResponseRedirect can accept a model, view, or url as it's "to" argument. So it is a little more flexible in what it can "redirect" to.

I also like how redirect is shorter. So I'd use redirect over HttpResponseRedirect.

Both are fine to use though.

Upvotes: 125

Srikar Appalaraju
Srikar Appalaraju

Reputation: 73638

From documentation -

redirect(to[, permanent=False], *args, **kwargs) Returns an HttpResponseRedirect to the appropriate URL for the arguments passed.

from the definition its the same. Thats what shortcuts are for. Both are one and the same.

shortcuts generally are written one level above the actual API's. So redirect encapsulates HttpResponseRedirect and HttpResponsePermanentRedirect with the arg permanent=False.

There is no major downside to using HttpResponseRedirect over redirect. Hope this clears it.

Upvotes: 23

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