how to redirect to another route in flask
from flask import Flask, render_templates
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def index:
return render_template("index.html")
@app.route("/home")
def home:
return redirect("/", code=302)
app.run()Pass Variable from python (flask) to HTML in redirect
Question:
In flask, I can do this:
render_template("foo.html", messages={'main':'hello'})
And if foo.html contains {{ messages['main'] }}, the page will show hello. But what if there's a route that leads to foo:
@app.route("/foo")
def do_foo():
# do some logic here
return render_template("foo.html")
In this case, the only way to get to foo.html, if I want that logic to happen anyway, is through a redirect:
@app.route("/baz")
def do_baz():
if some_condition:
return render_template("baz.html")
else:
return redirect("/foo", messages={"main":"Condition failed on page baz"})
# above produces TypeError: redirect() got an unexpected keyword argument 'messages'
So, how can I get that messages variable to be passed to the foo route, so that I don't have to just rewrite the same logic code that that route computes before loading it up?
Answer:
You could pass the messages as explicit URL parameter (appropriately encoded), or store the messages into session (cookie) variable before redirecting and then get the variable before rendering the template. For example:
from flask import session, url_for
def do_baz():
messages = json.dumps({"main":"Condition failed on page baz"})
session['messages'] = messages
return redirect(url_for('.do_foo', messages=messages))
@app.route('/foo')
def do_foo():
messages = request.args['messages'] # counterpart for url_for()
messages = session['messages'] # counterpart for session
return render_template("foo.html", messages=json.loads(messages))
(encoding the session variable might not be necessary, flask may be handling it for you, but can't recall the details)
Or you could probably just use Flask Message Flashing if you just need to show simple messages.Copyright © 2021 Codeinu
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