Check this out for how to redirect: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/shortcuts/#redirect
Check this out for how Django determines the name of primary key fields: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/db/models/#automatic-primary-key-fields The best advice has already been provided: Get a random post id from your model and then redirect to the DetailView of that post. You can figure it out. On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 10:41:28 AM UTC-6, Ronnie Raney wrote: > > Please give me code. Sorry, I can't decipher plain language in forums very > well, when talking about code. > > My urlpattern: > > path('post/<int:pk>/', views.PostDetailView.as_view(), > name='post_detail'), > path('post/*random*/*???*', views.random_post, name='random_post'), *### > What do I put here?* > > My view: > > def random_post(request): > post_ids = Post.objects.all().values_list('*post_id*', flat=True) * > ### Is this correct? My field name is post_id - the primary key.* > random_obj = Post.objects.get(*pk*=random.choice(post_ids)) *### > What do I put here? pk, id, post_id?* > context = {'random_obj':random_obj,} > return render(request, 'blog/random_post.html', context) > >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/4834d44e-cb98-4d0d-b656-ff2c05a486a8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
