[python] redirect while passing arguments

In flask, I can do this:

render_template("foo.html", messages={'main':'hello'})

And if foo.html contains {{ messages['main'] }}, the page will show hello. But what if there's a route that leads to foo:

@app.route("/foo")
def do_foo():
    # do some logic here
    return render_template("foo.html")

In this case, the only way to get to foo.html, if I want that logic to happen anyway, is through a redirect:

@app.route("/baz")
def do_baz():
    if some_condition:
        return render_template("baz.html")
    else:
        return redirect("/foo", messages={"main":"Condition failed on page baz"}) 
        # above produces TypeError: redirect() got an unexpected keyword argument 'messages'

So, how can I get that messages variable to be passed to the foo route, so that I don't have to just rewrite the same logic code that that route computes before loading it up?

I'm a little confused. "foo.html" is just the name of your template. There's no inherent relationship between the route name "foo" and the template name "foo.html".

To achieve the goal of not rewriting logic code for two different routes, I would just define a function and call that for both routes. I wouldn't use redirect because that actually redirects the client/browser which requires them to load two pages instead of one just to save you some coding time - which seems mean :-P

So maybe:

def super_cool_logic():
    # execute common code here

@app.route("/foo")
def do_foo():
    # do some logic here
    super_cool_logic()
    return render_template("foo.html")

@app.route("/baz")
def do_baz():
    if some_condition:
        return render_template("baz.html")
    else:
        super_cool_logic()
        return render_template("foo.html", messages={"main":"Condition failed on page baz"})

I feel like I'm missing something though and there's a better way to achieve what you're trying to do (I'm not really sure what you're trying to do)

I found that none of the answers here applied to my specific use case, so I thought I would share my solution.

I was looking to redirect an unauthentciated user to public version of an app page with any possible URL params. Example:

/app/4903294/my-great-car?email=coolguy%40gmail.com to

/public/4903294/my-great-car?email=coolguy%40gmail.com

Here's the solution that worked for me.

return redirect(url_for('app.vehicle', vid=vid, year_make_model=year_make_model, **request.args))

Hope this helps someone!