Hi George,
Thank you for the response.
I just realised that there was a bug in my code and now it works as
expected.
>From the link you gave, it also refreshed my mind and made me remember
that sessions are saved in the db when request.session is changed, so
it has no relation to the request object not being passed around for
context processing.
On May 13, 12:12 am, George Song <geo...@damacy.net> wrote:
> On 5/12/2009 5:45 AM, Iqbal Abdullah wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm confused on how to get data in request.session if a certain view
> > redirects the user using HttpResponseRedirect()
>
> > A sample code:
>
> > def view_start(request):
> > try:
> > Member(id)
> > except Exception, e:
> > # redirect to registration page if this id is not
> > registered
> > template_path = "member/register.html"
>
> > request.session['test_id'] = 200
>
> > url = "/member/register/" # This url is processed by
> > view_register()
> > return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
>
> > def view_register(request):
>
> > test_id = request.session.get('test_id', None)
>
> > in this case I will get None for test_id in view_register().
> > Is it possible to pass along sessions data when we use
> > HttpResponseRedirect() to redirect? Just from the code above I don't
> > see how that's possible because request in view_start() didn't get
> > passed anywhere when the redirect occurred.
>
> > I searched through the discussions and found something exactly like
> > what I'm doing (http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/
> > browse_thread/thread/451abbaf1feccf0b/19f266af42f4ed62?
> > hl=en&lnk=gst&q=sessions+HttpResponseRedirect#) and the OP says it's
> > working for him, but I'm not seeing the same results. Can members
> > point me to the right direction on how to use sessions through
> > redirects?
>
> Your code appears correct for how you're using `request.session`. Couple
> things to check:
>
> 1. Make sure you've enabled your sessions[1].
> 2. Make sure you are getting the `sessionid` cookie in your browser.
>
> [1]
> <http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/#enabling-s...>
>
> --
> George
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