how to pass context data with django redirect function?

Question

I have function which redirect to a URL.

return redirect('/orders')

The URL /orders has some context data which is being passed to it. I want to pass some additional data along with data from the URL's function in view like:

return redirect('/orders', {'message':'some_message'})

I tried like this according to documentation:

return redirect('/orders', message='some_message')

But it didn't passed any data back to html. So how to pass data with redirect?

Answer 1

If its just a small item, like ?status=2 it can be added to the URL in the usual way. (small aside: careful, it may have a negative impact of how search engines spider your web site, i.e. create duplicate content issues)

However, for your example, passing an entire "message" string to the next page, I would recommend to do it the same way Django's Messages framework does it: by using Django's Session engine.