Question

I’m making a simple vote class, where a user can vote up or vote down an answer. I don’t want this function to return anything,as the vote for every user is created when he votes.
The problem is that my redirection, or empty return gives me an error like: The page isn’t redirecting properly from browser.

My code:

def vote_answer_down(request,id):
   answer = Answer.objects.get(pk = id)
   VoteDownAnswer.objects.create(answer = answer, voted_down_by = request.user) 

   return HttpResponseRedirect('.') #or return (without httpresponse),gives the same

where am i wrong?
Thanks!

Answer 1

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpResponseRedirect

The constructor takes a single argument — the path to redirect to. This can be a fully qualified URL (e.g. ‘http://www.yahoo.com/search/‘) or an absolute URL with no domain (e.g. ‘/search/’). Note that this returns an HTTP status code 302.

What makes you think ‘.’ will work?

Usually use the reverse function to provide the absolute URL required.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#reverse