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Reputation: 53

Django redirect with a custom error message

I'm new in using django templating/frontend and I would like to redirect to a page with a custom message in django.

Here's what I've tried but I can't make It work.

View

return redirect("/login",custom_error="Try Again Later")

Login.html

{% if custom_error %}
<p class="errornote">
    {{ custom_error }}
</p>
{% endif %}

Any suggestions on how to make this work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5564

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476537

Please do not encode error messages in the URL. You can use the Django message framework [Django-doc] for this.

Before you make the request, you add a message:

from django.contrib import messages

messages.error('Try again later')
return redirect('name-of-login-view')

It is furthermore better to specify the name of the view, instead of the path, since the path might later change.

In the template(s), probably best in a base.html template that is inherited by (most) other templates, you can then render this with:

{% if messages %}
<ul class="messages">
    {% for message in messages %}
    <li{% if message.tags %} class="{{ message.tags }}"{% endif %}>{{ message }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}

Upvotes: 3

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