Question

I have created a random blog post link on my site and the code it uses works. When I was creating it there was a problem making it work correctly since it kept saying ‘QuerySet’ object has no attribute ‘slug’, so I came up with a work around. The work around makes more requests to the db than necessary (i think):

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
def randompost(request):
    blog_posts = BlogPost.objects.filter(post_status = 'published').order_by('?')[:1]
    blog_title = blog_posts[0]
    blog_post = get_object_or_404(BlogPost, title=blog_title)

    path = '/theblog/post/' + blog_post.slug + '/'

    return HttpResponseRedirect(path)

Ideally I would like a solution like Django redirect URL to latest created blog post

Will it also need the correct http code since it’s a redirect?

The old code with the Queryset error:

blog_post = BlogPost.objects.filter(post_status = 'published').order_by('?')[:1]
path = '/theblog/post/' + blog_post.slug + '/'

return HttpResponseRedirect(path)

Answer 1

1. It’s better to use redirect and reverse URLs;
2. You could use [] syntax to get first object of QuerySet.

Updated code:

from django.shortcuts import redirect

def randompost(request):
    blog_posts = BlogPost.objects.filter(post_status='published').order_by('?')
    latest_post = blog_posts[0]

    return redirect('blog_post', latest_post.slug)

Updated:

URL sample, reverse is done by url name blog_post:

url(r'^post/(\w+)$', 'view_name', name='blog_post')