How to pass information using an HTTP redirect (in Django)

Question

I have a view that accepts a form submission and updates a model.

After updating the model, I want to redirect to another page, and I want a message such as \"Field X su

Answer 1

This is a built-in feature of Django, called "messages"

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#messages

From the documentation:

A message is associated with a User. There's no concept of expiration or timestamps.

Messages are used by the Django admin after successful actions. For example, "The poll Foo was created successfully." is a message.