Question

This code renders out a template ‘sites.htm’ in response to the POST request:

def post(self):
        acct = self.request.get('account')
        pw = self.request.get('password')

        que = db.Query(User)
        que = que.filter('account =', acct)
        que = que.filter('password =', pw)
        results = que.fetch(limit = 1)

        values = { }
        newval = dict(values)
        newval['path'] = self.request.path

        if len(results) > 0:
            arraySample = ['6','7','8','ninja']
            path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates/sites.htm')
            self.response.out.write(template.render(path, {'arraySample':arraySample,'message':'Ninja IDE'}))

But I want my application to respond to that login attempt by redirecting to ‘sites.htm’ with the parameters of a dictionary.

I can’t just do self.redirect('sites.htm') because the elements from the dictionary won’t be shown.

Is there a way I can pass the dictionary as a url parameter to redirect() method?

Thanks in advance and I hope I was clear enough!

Answer 1

put the dictionary in the query string. HTTP 101

import urllib
self.redirect("sites.htm?%s" % urllib.urlencode(dict(a="this and that", b="back and forth)))