CODEWITHSUNDEEP
djangourlreverse
Hans de Jong
Hans de Jong

Reputation: 2078

django HttpResponseRedirect and ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES

I'm new to django (1.5.1) and got a bit stuk with HttpResponseRedirect. If I understand right that needs a static string, and when you want it to dynamic redirect, you get a reverse() or a get_absolute_url() I think I get the part of the get_absolute_url, but I'm stuck on redirecting to the following url (first is mysite.urls.py second is my characters.view.py

url(r'^users/', include('characters.urls')),
url(r'^(?P<user_id>\d+)/characters/$', views.user_characters, name='user_characters'),

from this view:

if new_char_form.is_valid():
    #save form with commit=False
    new_char_obj = new_char_form.save(commit=False)
    #set user and save
    new_char_obj.user = user
    new_char_obj.save()

    return HttpResponseRedirect('%s/characters/' % user.id)

So I know I can't use the HttpResponseRedirect that way, and since I can't include a get_absolute_url function in the user model, I found the next option.

Include this in my settings

ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'auth.users': lambda o: "/users/%s/" % o.id,
}

but then I have no clue how to call for that. Can someone please give me help (sort of stuck on this for some time)

With kind regards Hans

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1699

Answers (1)

Alasdair
Alasdair

Reputation: 308839

The easiest way to redirect to the user_characters view is to use the redirect shortcut.

from django.shortcuts import redirect

# in the view
return redirect('user_characters', user.id)

This is equivalent to using HttpResponseRedirect and reverse

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

# in the view
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('user_characters', args=[user.id]))

If you want to use ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES to override the get_absolute_url method for the User model, you have to make sure that the url matches the format of your view named user_characters.

ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
    'auth.users': lambda o: "/users/%s/characters/" % o.id,
}

You would then be able to call user.get_absolute_url() in your views, and do 

return HttpResponseRedirect(user.get_absolute_url())

Or, since the redirect shortcut allows you to pass a model instance:

return redirect(user)

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions