Ajax will not redirect pages!
What you get from a redirect is the html code from the new page inside the data object on the POST response.
If you know where to redirect the user if whatever action fails, you can simply do something like this:
On the server,
In case you have an error
response = {'status': 0, 'message': _("Your error")}
If everything went ok
response = {'status': 1, 'message': _("Ok")} # for ok
Send the response:
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(response), content_type="application/json")
on the html page:
$.post( "{% url 'your_url' %}",
{ csrfmiddlewaretoken: '{{ csrf_token}}' ,
other_params: JSON.stringify(whatever)
},
function(data) {
if(data.status == 1){ // meaning that everyhting went ok
// do something
}
else{
alert(data.message)
// do your redirect
window.location('your_url')
}
});
If you don’t know where to send the user, and you prefer to get that url from the server, just send that as a parameter:
response = {'status': 0, 'message': _("Your error"), 'url':'your_url'}
then substitute that on window location:
alert(data.message)
// do your redirect
window.location = data.url;