Redirect to a URL which contains a 'variable part' in Flask (Python)

Question

I'm trying to redirect to a URL in Flask. The target URL that I'm trying to redirect to has a variable like this /dashboard/<username> which has a view as follows,

@app.route('/dashboard/<username>')
def dashboard(username):
    return render_template('dashboard.html', username=username)

How do I redirect to this URL using the Flask's redirect() & url_for() functions. I have tried this,

return redirect(url_for("index"))

which works fine as index is an URL without any variable part (/index) in my application. But, how do I do it for URLs which have variable paths?

Thanks

Answer 1

You will want to create your URL with url_for by giving it the name of your URL, the keyword arg, and value for your URL parameter in the following manner:

return redirect(url_for('dashboard', username='foo'))