add request.GET variable using django.shortcuts.redirect

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Is possible to add GET variables in a redirect ? (Without having to modifiy my urls.py)

If I do redirect('url-name', x)

I get HttpResponseRedirect('/my_long_url/%s/', x)

I don't have complains using HttpResponseRedirect('/my_long_url/%s/?q=something', x) instead, but just wondering...

Small typo in the answer from Manoj Govindan: params = urllib.urlencode(**kwargs) needs to be replaced with params = urllib.urlencode(kwargs) Otherwise you get "TypeError: urlencode() got an unexpected keyword argument" — Max Arnold, Jun 13 '11 at 09:19

score 130 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '10 at 05:14

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Since redirect just returns an HttpResponseRedirect object, you could just alter that:

response = redirect('url-name', x)
response['Location'] += '?your=querystring'
return response

answered Sep 22 '10 at 05:14

SmileyChris

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Easy enough to use `urldefrag` if that's a possibility. Thanks for pointing out the potential error if you have an anchor in your url response. – SmileyChris Dec 01 '16 at 22:20
Best answer ever – Ronaldo Bahia Apr 13 '17 at 16:57
@Kolyunya: Are you sure? I'm using it with an anchor – Hassan Baig May 20 '19 at 18:39

Manoj Govindan · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-23T13:26:15.450

Is possible to add GET variables in a redirect ? (Without having to modifiy my urls.py)

I don't know of any way to do this without modifying the urls.py.

I don't have complains using HttpResponseRedirect('/my_long_url/%s/?q=something', x) instead, but just wondering...

You might want to write a thin wrapper to make this easier. Say, custom_redirect

def custom_redirect(url_name, *args, **kwargs):
    from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse 
    import urllib
    url = reverse(url_name, args = args)
    params = urllib.urlencode(kwargs)
    return HttpResponseRedirect(url + "?%s" % params)

This can then be called from your views. For e.g.

return custom_redirect('url-name', x, q = 'something')
# Should redirect to '/my_long_url/x/?q=something'

It's crazy this is not part of Django framework... Any philosophical reason behind? — Alex Gidan, Apr 13 '17 at 11:27

Valery Ramusik · Answer 3 · 2019-04-18T19:19:39.117

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We can import urlencode from django.

from django.utils.http import urlencode

get_args_str = urlencode({'q': 'something'})

Or we can just use unparsed get parameters string from starting request

get_args_str = request.META['QUERY_STRING']

HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s' % (url, get_args_str))

edited Apr 18 '19 at 19:19

answered Jul 04 '18 at 08:15

Valery Ramusik

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I think the `x` should be removed to make this work. Otherwise the contents of `x` are added as a body in the HTTP response when it should be empty. – Tim Tisdall Apr 18 '19 at 17:58
Yes. Thank you for finding this bug. Edited. – Valery Ramusik Apr 18 '19 at 19:24

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 12 '19 at 17:53

I think it's worth noting that Django's RedirectView class has a built-in class attribute query_string which can be overridden or passed to as_view. If set to True, query_string will preserve the query string in the redirect. For example, you could put the following in urls.py:

path('example-redirect/',
     RedirectView.as_view(url='https://example.com', query_string=True),
     name='example_redirect')

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