Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Build web apps with Pyramid: Applied web development
Lecture: Register on the site (redirect or error section) demo

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0:01 So now we have this data being passed in,
0:02 we would do something... let's comment that out for a second, we would do something
0:07 like maybe over here we would create account in DB
0:12 we would send welcome email,
0:15 before we did any of that of course we want to validate no account exists
0:20 and maybe passwords match,
0:23 although you know this confirmation business
0:25 I know a lot of sites have it and it feels great
0:27 but at the same time if you have a really good way to reset your password,
0:31 then maybe we could simplify and streamline the account creation
0:36 and maybe get just a few more percent people to actually sign up for our site,
0:40 that would be really nice so we can decide if we want this in practice,
0:43 but these are the types of things,
0:44 validate that the data is OK, that they actually entered an email
0:48 the email is valid things like this and then if it is, we'll create an account,
0:51 I'll send a welcome email and then what we want to do is we want to redirect.
0:56 We can just raise an exception, a specific exception type.
1:00 Now this redirect pattern, I told you get POST/redirect is super common,
1:05 so the ability to redirect to a URL is also something you need all the time,
1:08 where the stuff that all the action methods need go? It goes in the base controller,
1:13 so let's write a redirect function over here.
1:16 So here we'll just have "def redirect", and then we'll have to_url,
1:20 where do we want them to go?
1:22 It could be on our site, it could be somewhere else, it just depends what URL we put.
1:26 OK, we are going to need access to this exception thing,
1:29 so let's go over here and say import pyramid.httpexceptions
1:34 and let's keep it a little bit short, so let's say "as exc",
1:37 so we don't have to type out that long thing,
1:39 and then down here we are going to actually add one more parameter,
1:42 let's say whether let's let the user decide whether or not this is a permanent redirect,
1:47 sometimes you want to have a temporary redirect,
1:50 like our login for example, other times, you are going to permanently do a redirect
1:55 and this is important for SEO, we won't get into it now
1:58 but let's go ahead and set that ability here.
2:00 So we are going to return or cause one of two types of exceptions,
2:04 we'll say "if permanent", we want to raise our exc.HTTPMovedPermanently.
2:11 Now notice we can set the location, we can set the details, the headers, comments,
2:16 all sorts of stuff but we are just going to say the location is the to_url.
2:21 But if it's not permanent, we are going to raise the different type of exception,
2:24 HTTPFound, so I know you are looking for this but I found it over there
2:28 so go redirect over to this to_url.
2:32 So PyCharm is still in this, this can be static, let's just tell it, hey don't bother me.
2:37 Don't make it look like there is something wrong with this,
2:39 so back to our account controller, we're ready to redirect,
2:42 assuming that we get through all this validation,
2:44 we don't have to return anything, we can just say self.redirect because remember,
2:48 this throws an exception, where are we going to go?
2:50 Let's just go to /account.
2:53 And this is not going to be a permanent redirect, this is just when you log in.
2:57 So, let's do this, we can put this back for a minute,
3:01 and we can print out redirecting, alright,
3:04 so we pretty much have the GET/POST/redirect thing in place,
3:07 and here is the GET, the user is going to post it back, the post is going to hit this one,
3:11 we'll do the various work, which we are not doing the validation yet,
3:14 we'll do that in just a moment, then we are going to redirect here.
3:18 Let's rerun the app and check it out, so let's go register,
3:21 my name is going to be "jeff", the password is going to be "a", again "a", hit Enter,
3:27 calling this we have two passwords, redirecting our account page and where are we?
3:31 We are now on /account, not /account/register, just /account,
3:34 because guess what we register for the site, how awesome is that?
3:37 Ok, last thing we are going to talk about after this is
3:41 how do we add a little basically temporary validation
3:43 and we'll see a pattern that makes all of this cleaner.