redirecting to homepage after user submits a blog post?-CodePudding

I'm very new to using Django and coding in general. So I have figured out how to make the form submit to my database but now when it submits, it just brings you to the blank blog_post view and I'm not understanding how to redirect correctly.

here is the views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .models import post
from django.views import generic, View
from django.views.decorators.http import require_GET
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from .forms import PostForm

# Views for post list


class postslist(generic.ListView):
    model = post
    queryset = post.objects.filter(status=1).order_by('-created_on')
    template_name = 'home.html'
    paginate_by = 4

# view for individual post


class postdetail(generic.DetailView):
    model = post
    template_name = "post.html"


def blog_post(request):

    form = PostForm(request.POST or None)

    if request.method == "POST":
        if form.is_valid():
            form.instance.user = request.user
            form.save()
        return redirect("blog:success")

    context = {'form': form,
               }

    return render(request, "create_post.html", context)


def success(request):
    return HttpResponseRedirect("home.html")

urls.py:

from . import views
from django.urls import path, include
from .views import *


urlpatterns = [
    # home
    path('', views.postslist.as_view(), name='home'), 
    # add post
    path('blog_post/', views.blog_post, name='blog_post'),
    # success for blog post
    path('success/', views.success, name='success'),
    # posts
    path('<slug:slug>/', views.postdetail.as_view(), name='post_detail'),
]

I have tried a few variations of httpresponseredirect and redirect but i just cant wrap my head around it, nor can i find it online. Any help is greatly appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

You can redirect to the home in success with:

from django.utils import redirect


def success(request):
    return redirect('blog:home')

You should however only redirect in case the form was successful, so:

def blog_post(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = PostForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.instance.user = request.user
            form.save()
            return redirect('blog:home')  #