Django redirect not working if called inside a function [duplicate]

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I would like to put a redirect command inside of a function and then call this function in a Django view. Can anyone give me a hint why my code below does not redirect?

This redirection works:

views.py

from django.shortcuts import redirect from django.http import HttpResponse def my_view(request): return redirect("https://stackoverflow.com") return HttpResponse("<p>redirection did not work</p>")

This redirection does not work:

views.py

from django.shortcuts import redirect from django.http import HttpResponse # define subfunction def test(): return redirect("https://stackoverflow.com") def my_view(request): test() return HttpResponse("<p>redirection did not work</p>")

Some context to the duplicate: the redirect shortcut function returns a subclass of HttpResponse — Abdul Aziz Barkat
– Abdul Aziz Barkat, Commented Apr 23, 2024 at 5:22

Hetvi · Accepted Answer · 2024-04-23 05:17:33Z

In the second example, you're calling the test() function, which performs a redirection, but you're not doing anything with the result of that function call. To ensure the redirection works, you need the result of test() and then return that result from my_view(). As shown below:

def my_view(request): # Call the subfunction and return its result return test()

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