Redirecting after AJAX post in Django
Ajax will not redirect pages!
What you get from a redirect is the html code from the new page inside the data object on the POST response.
If you know where to redirect the user if whatever action fails, you can simply do something like this:
On the server,
In case you have an error
response = {'status': 0, 'message': _("Your error")}
If everything went ok
response = {'status': 1, 'message': _("Ok")} # for ok
Send the response:
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(response), content_type='application/json')
on the html page:
$.post( "{% url 'your_url' %}", { csrfmiddlewaretoken: '{{ csrf_token}}' , other_params: JSON.stringify(whatever) }, function(data) { if(data.status == 1){ // meaning that everyhting went ok // do something } else{ alert(data.message) // do your redirect window.location('your_url') } });
If you don't know where to send the user, and you prefer to get that url from the server, just send that as a parameter:
response = {'status': 0, 'message': _("Your error"), 'url':'your_url'}
then substitute that on window location:
alert(data.message) // do your redirect window.location = data.url;
http://hunterford.me/how-to-handle-http-redirects-with--jquery-and-django/
Edit: source unavailable
this one works for me, perhaps looks like hack
django middleware
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirectclass AjaxRedirect(object): def process_response(self, request, response): if request.is_ajax(): if type(response) == HttpResponseRedirect: response.status_code = 278 return response
javascript
$(document).ready(function() { $(document).ajaxComplete(function(e, xhr, settings) { if (xhr.status == 278) { window.location.href = xhr.getResponseHeader("Location"); } });});
django-ajax's ajaxPost allows for redirects if you pass a normal redirect(URL) to it (as a json response). Jquery ajax() methods did not work in my case.