Tutorial: What about the HttpResponseRedirect?

[anonymous]

In the Tutorial it is not explained how to replace the final:

HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('mysite.polls.views.results', args=(p.id,)))

in order to fit to the standard views of Django ;-)

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Can you give an example of what you mean? Since views can be any Python function, "standard views" doesn't mean much.

[Mike <mikeshantz@…>]

I noticed this as well.
I think what is meant is the following:

The text in tutorial04 (​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial04/) needs a bit of an update.

In part 4 of the tutorial the /polls/urls.py file is updated to "use generic views" (last section). This is being changed from the setup that was explained in part 3 (​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial03/).

Earlier in part 4 a view function called vote() is created. In this function there is a reverse lookup of a url using the setup from from part 3. The line is return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('mysite.polls.views.results', args=(p.id,))) .

When, in part 4, you are instructed on updating the vote() function to match the new "generic views" setup, there is no instruction for changing this line. The problem is that no url has been configured for the reverse lookup to get, and so pressing the vote button on ​http://localhost:8000/polls/1/vote/ yeilds a "NoReverseMatch at /polls/1/vote/" error.

[Chris Beaven]

Dupe of the more verbose ticket #4615