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Eu Chi
Eu Chi

Reputation: 563

Post to django view from another view

Facing some constraints in a website, I was obligated to try to post data to some view from another view (I suppose it does make sense), like:

def view1(request):
     if request.method == 'POST':
          value = request.POST.get('h1')
     ''' '''

And in my view2, I would do something like:

def view2(request):

    if constraint:
          python.post(/url/view1/,data={'h1':1}) # Doesn't exist
          # Just a demonstration

Is there a way to do what I want?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10705

Answers (3)

Jesus Pons
Jesus Pons

Reputation: 11

Take a look at Python Requests: I found it in in Python forum to print which could be modified to post.

import requests

req = requests.Request('POST','http://stackoverflow.com',headers={'X-Custom':'Test'},data='a=1&b=2')
prepared = req.prepare()

def pretty_print_POST(req):
    """
    At this point it is completely built and ready
    to be fired; it is "prepared".

    However pay attention at the formatting used in 
    this function because it is programmed to be pretty 
    printed and may differ from the actual request.
    """
    print('{}\n{}\n{}\n\n{}'.format(
        '-----------START-----------',
        req.method + ' ' + req.url,
        '\n'.join('{}: {}'.format(k, v) for k, v in req.headers.items()),
        req.body,
    ))

pretty_print_POST(prepared)

Upvotes: -1

Name
Name

Reputation: 11

Use the requests library to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Massimo Costa
Massimo Costa

Reputation: 1860

you could use the requests package to send request to other URLs, the question is "why" ??.

Why not extract the code of view1 in a utility function and call int from view2?

If you need to use an new HTTP request, I suggest to use the Django reverse() function to the the URL from the urls.py configuration (refer to the official documentation )

Upvotes: 4

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