In your db_action() controller, rather than doing a return() at the
end, you could just redirect like so:
redirect(request.env.http_referer)
On May 29, 2:46 pm, Luis Goncalves <lgoncal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> There is a database action that I want to do in several views.
>
> Right now, I have it implemented as a link in each view as
>
> <a href="db_action?id={{=item_id}}">Toggle Status</a>
>
> How do I get my db_action() controller to return back to the page
> with the link that called it?
>
> Is there a way to cause the browser to do the equivalent of the "back"
> button?
>
> Something like:
>
> response.view = find_the_controller(request.env.http_referer)
> return dict()
>
> won't work because I'm not returning the proper dictionary for the
> referring controller.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> dict_from_referring_controller =
> run_referring_controller( request.env.http_referer )
> # ? do I have to define the response view?
> return dict_from_referring_controller
>
> Perhaps the nicest/cleanest implementation would be with AJAX/JQuery,
> but I haven't learned that yet.
>
> Is there a way to do it with <a href> links? Or is that super-bad
> form?
>
> Thanks!
> Luis.
