How do I redirect in Django with context?

Question

I have a view that validates and saves a form. After the form is saved, I'd like redirect back to a list_object view with a success message "form for customer xyz was successfully updated..."

HttpResponseRedirect doesn't seem like it would work, because it only has an argument for the url, no way to pass dictionary with it.

I've tried modifying my wrapper for object_list to take a dict as a parameter that has the necessary context. I the return a call to this wrapper from inside the view that saves the form. However, when the page is rendered, the url is '/customer_form/' rather than '/list_customers/'. I tried modifying the request object, before passing it to the object_list wrapper, but that did not work.

Thanks.

Answer 1

request.user.message_set was deprecated in Django 1.2 and has been removed since Django 1.4, the message framework should be used instead.

from django.contrib import messages

# messages.add_message(request, level, message, extra_tags='', fail_silently=False)
messages.add_message(request, messages.INFO, "Your Message")

Alternatively, you can use one of the shortcut functions:

from django.contrib import messages

messages.debug(request, "Your Message")
messages.info(request, "Your Message")
messages.success(request, "Your Message")
messages.warning(request, "Your Message")
messages.error(request, "Your Message")

Messages can then be rendered on the template with:

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