Django Unleashed

17.5.3 Returning to Redirection

In Chapter 5 we built a view to redirect our root URL to our blog post list. This view, thanks to GCBVs, is completely unnecessary. We therefore replace the view and the URL pattern with the RedirectView GCBV.

To start, delete the suorganizer/views.py file. In suorganizer/urls.py, replace the URL pattern referencing redirect_root with the code in Example 17.31.

Example 17.31: Project Code

suorganizer/urls.py in b02e39dac0

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20   from django.views.generic import RedirectView  .       ... 29       url(r'^$', 30           RedirectView.as_view( 31               pattern_name='blog_post_list', 32               permanent=False)),

Thanks to the ability to override CBV attributes and the behavior ...