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Kyuhyeok Park
Kyuhyeok Park

Reputation: 55

How to pass a GET parameter in Django in UTF-8

I want to pass a GET parameter when rendering a view in Django. My code is as follows : 

class CustomerList(ListView):
    model = Customer
    template_name = 'management/customer_list.html'

    def get(self, request):
        search_text = request.GET.get('search_text', '') # check if search_text exists
        query = Q(name__icontains=search_text) | Q(phone_number__icontains=search_text)
        object_list = self.model.objects.filter(query).order_by('-regdate', '-id')
        if object_list.count() == 0:
            response = redirect('management:customer-create')
            response['Location'] += '?name=%s' % (search_text)
            return response

        context = {
            'object_list':object_list,
            'search_text':search_text,
            'count':self.model.objects.count()
        }
        return render(request, self.template_name, context)

and the resulting url goes like this:

/customer/=?utf-8?b?L2N1c3RvbWVyL2NyZWF0ZS8/bmFtZT3tmY3quLjrj5k=?=

with page not found error

What do you think am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 437

Answers (1)

Kyuhyeok Park
Kyuhyeok Park

Reputation: 55

From the comment I found the solution, which was to use urlencode().

if object_list.count() == 0:
    from django.http import QueryDict
    response = redirect('management:customer-create')
    q = QueryDict(mutable=True)
    q['name'] = search_text
    query_string = q.urlencode() # encodes utf8 string also
    response['Location'] += '?%s' % (query_string)
    return response

Upvotes: 1

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