i have a table with a list of products and a button that redirectes me to other page to edit that product like product/edit/. When i finished edit the product i want to cameback to the page i was in before i went to the edit page. I cant use redirect and the url code because i am using django-filters and i can acess the edit page from other pages too.
So i have 2 possible starts:
/product?active=yes
/product/detail/
there i can acess the edit page
/product/edit/
and when i save the product instance i want to came back to or product list or the detail based on i has before?
It is hard to do so ? I need to do it in some pages 
Thanks for anyhelp!
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You have a couple of different options.
You could create a hidden field in the edit form to contain the url to return to - and when the form is submitted, use it as the target for the redirect.
Or, you could create a session variable that gets populated when you go to the edit page and get that variable from the session when the edit page is submitted.
Neither is a “perfect” solution, but either one should be adequate in the general case.
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I was able to do the first option, but i am not entirely happy with that solution.
How session variable work ? Where do i define them ?
There is another alternative to the 2 mentioned already and that is to pass the back url on as a variable in the URL which you can then set as the success url in the edit view.
Thanks you both for your help!
Hey mates,
I was wordering if it was possible to use global variables, like, create a variable in the views.py file and update that variable inside one of the views ?
Maybe could invent a library that would allow one to code Python as usual, then some intermediate service converts it to proper Django without globals. Would require heavy grammar/ formal language skills or deep knowledge of Python AST.