Could you just specify the data in the URL that you redirect to?
mike
Jay Parlar wrote:
> On 5/2/08, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I must be missing something super obvious here, but I can't figure out
>> how to pass data to a new view, from the old one.
>>
>> For example, I have the following in a view:
>>
>> categories = [1,2,3]
>> return HttpResponseRedirect(
>> reverse('question-select',
>>
>> args=[position_id],kwargs={'categories':categories}))
>>
>>
>> A URL pattern of:
>>
>> url(r'^(?P<position_id>\d+)/question-select/$',
>> choose_questions,kwargs={'categories':None}, name='question-select' ),
>>
>>
>> And a 'choose_questions' view of:
>>
>> def choose_questions(request, position_id, categories=None):
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I would *love* to have the value of 'categories' in 'choose_questions'
>> be [1,2,3], the value I passed to reverse(). However, this isn't
>> happening. What, if any, is the proper way to pass extra context to a
>> view like this?
>
>
> Wait a sec, I'm crazy, aren't I... The call to HttpResponseRedirect is
> just going to tell the browser to redirect to a new URL, so there's no
> direct calling of the view function. Oops.
>
> If anyone has a better way to do it, I'd like to hear. I guess for now
> I'll use sessions.
>
> Jay P.
>
> >
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