Merge pull request #8 from girardinsamuel/feat/location

Add external redirects feature

Author: zodman

inertia/views.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 from inspect import signature
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.http.response import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.views.generic import View
 from django.views.generic.list import BaseListView
 from django.views.generic.detail import BaseDetailView
@@ -117,6 +118,15 @@ def render_inertia(request, component_name, props=None, template_name=None):
                              url=request.get_full_path())
     return render(request, inertia_template, context)
 
+
+def location(url):
+    """Redirect to an external website, or even another non-Inertia endpoint in your app,
+    within an Inertia request."""
+    response = HttpResponse(status=409)
+    response["X-Inertia-Location"] = url
+    return response
+
+
 class InertiaMixin:
     component_name = ""
     props = None

test.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 )
 django.setup()
 from inertia.version import get_version
-from inertia.views import render_inertia
+from inertia.views import location, render_inertia
 from inertia.middleware import InertiaMiddleware
 
 
@@ -126,3 +126,9 @@ def lazy_loaded_prop():
         response = render_inertia(request, "Index", {"a": "1", "b": lazy_loaded_prop})
         # check that b is not returned because we only ask for a
         self.assertIn(b'"props": {"a": "1"},', response.content)
+
+
+    def test_location(self):
+        response = location("https://github.com")
+        self.assertEqual(409, response.status_code)
+        self.assertEqual(('X-Inertia-Location', 'https://github.com'), response._headers['x-inertia-location'])