How do i pass a django url parameter to redirect function

Question

I'm creating a blog website and I want it to be that when a user update a post, I want to redirect them to the view page for that article.

the urls.py

url_patterns = [
    path('view/<str:id>/, views.viewPost, name='viewpost'), 
    path('update/<str:id>/, views.updatePost, name='updatepost') 
]

My problem is that, I want to be able to redirect to the viewpost when I update a post

I tried

return redirect('viewpost' id)

But it was giving me an error

Thanks for your contribution

What was the error? what did you find when researching that error? — Sayse
– Sayse, Commented Jul 18, 2021 at 18:36

Abhyudai · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-18 18:58:47Z

1

You specify this with:

id = 1425  # some id
return redirect('viewpost', id=id)

Note: It might be better to use pk over id, since the pk field of a model always refers to the primary key, regardless the name of the field that is the primary key. Furthermore Python has a builtin id(…) [Python-doc] function, thus by using id you will "shadow" the builtin.

edited Jul 18, 2021 at 18:58

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Mcdonald Otoyo Over a year ago

Ok, so pk is better than id. Thanks

Mcdonald Otoyo Over a year ago

Alright that worked, thanks for the advice tho

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