Redirect after post causes an error

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I have the following code to save an entry (section) from a form. The save works fine and after the save I want to redirect the user back to a form showing a list of sections. Here is the code.

def album_section_new(request, album_pk):
    form = AlbumSectionForm()
    source = request.session['album_source']
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = AlbumSectionForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
        if form.is_valid():
            this_album = Album.objects.get(pk=album_pk)
            album_section = form.save(commit=False)
            album_section.album_id = this_album
            album_section.save()
            context = {"pk": album_pk,
                       "source": source,}
            return redirect('album_sections.html', context=context)
    else:
        context = {"form": form,
                   "album_pk": album_pk,
                   "source": source}
        return render(request, 'Albums/album_section_edit.html',
                      context)

The return redirect(‘album_sections.html’, context-context) should presumably take the user to that page with the PK of the album and the list will show the newly added section. However, I’m getting a 404 error message and the final line in the error shows this.

The current path, albums/album_section_new/f74cf79c-0dc2-4981-a34b-c174d4e2d6b0/album_sections.html , didn’t match any of these.

I’m not sure why through the redirect it is prefixing the url with the current url.

Any ideas on what I’m missing here?

Thanks.

2

You use redirect with a URL, not a template to be rendered.

What is your URL for the view that renders album_sections.html? That’s what you want to redirect to.

3

This is the url in urls.py…

path('album-sections/<str:pk>/<str:source>/', views.album_sections, name='album_sections')
4

Okay, thanks Ken, you pushed me in the right direction and got me thinking correctly about this.

I changed the code to…

return redirect('album_sections', pk=album_pk, source=source)

and this worked.

Thanks!
Bob