[Grok-dev] Re: grok.View: Self-submitting forms, redirect, and before()

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Suresh V wrote:
>> Christian Theune wrote:
>>>>
>>>>       def __call__(self):
>>>> -        self.before()
>>>> +        self.update()
>>>> +        if self.request.response.getStatus() in (302, 303):
>>
>> Could the above be better dealt with as an exception? Who will be 
>> setting this status?
> 
> You would be setting the status indirectly by 
> response.redirect('some-other-place') within self.update(). You can also 
> raise zope.publisher.interfaces.Redirect, but that needs no special 
> handling as the exception will propagate all the way to the publisher 
> anyway.

Actually we got the .redirect() method in Grok so no 
self.request.response.redirect() stuff necessary, just use 
self.redirect() in your view code which talks to the response for you.

Regards,

Martijn