Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#14803 closed (fixed)

ModelFormMixing's handling of "success_url" is inconsistent with old generic view behaviour

Reported by: Gabriel Grant Owned by: Gabriel Grant
Component: Generic views Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Handling of "success_url" in ModelFormMixing seems to be inconsistent with how "get_absolute_url" is handled in views.generic.create_update.redirect()

In old generic views, the url could be a format string into which the object's fields would be interpolated. But that doesn't happed in ModelFormMixin: form_valid() just redirects to the result of get_success_url() (which doesn't do the interpolation)

This inconsistency should be dealt with by either:

  1. documenting the discrepency in here (presumably with the suggestion that the reader override the "get_success_url()" method to implement the interpolation)
  1. patching ModelFormMixin.get_success_url() to be consistent with old generic view handling and document the behaviour here

I prefer the latter, but the behaviour change could be a design decision (which I'm certainly not qualified to override :). Let me know, and I can prepare a patch.

Also, as an aside, it seems that redirecting back to the POSTed form would be a better last-resort, rather than throwing an ImproperlyConfigured error.

Comments?

Attachments (1)

14803.2.diff (4.9 KB ) - added by Gabriel Grant 14 years ago.
patch implements solution #2. Includes tests & docs

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Change History (5)

by Gabriel Grant, 14 years ago

Attachment: 14803.2.diff added

patch implements solution #2. Includes tests & docs

comment:1 by Gabriel Grant, 14 years ago

Has patch: set

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 14 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedReady for checkin

Patch looks good, mod some minor PEP8 stuff that can easily get cleaned up prior to commit.

As for the aside -- sounds like a good idea to me, but it needs a separate ticket, and a patch that implements a get_absolute_url() solution that defers to success_url if it is provided.

comment:3 by Russell Keith-Magee, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [14808]) Fixed #14803 -- Corrected an inconsistency in redirection handling between old-style generic views and class-based views. Thanks to gg for the report and patch.

comment:4 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.3

Milestone 1.3 deleted

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