How to store an object in django sessions framework - django

Question

I have an django and i am trying to store an object in django session varaible, and trying to access that in the redirected view, but its showing keyerror as below
def payment(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = CardForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
data = form.cleaned_data
response = response_from_payment_gateway(data)
request.session['response'] = response
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('paygate:payment_success'))
else:
form = CardForm(initial={'number':'4242424242424242'})
return render_to_response('payment_form.html',{'form': form})
def PaymentSuccess(request):
print request.session['response'],"=================>"
response = None
return render_to_response("payment_success.html", {'response':response}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
Result
Internal Server Error: /payment/success/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/Envs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 115, in get_response
response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/user/virtualenvironment/apps/app/payment/views.py", line 120, in PaymentSuccess
print request.session['response'],"=================>"
File "/home/Envs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py", line 46, in __getitem__
return self._session[key]
KeyError: 'response'
So i am getting back a response object from the payment gateway that contains the transaction details, and i am trying to save that in session framework variable called response as above.
And i am trying to access the variable called response in the redirected view PaymentSuccess as request.session['response'], and getting the above mentioned error.
so how can we send/save the objects in the sessions in django ?
In above the response object will be of the following form
{'status': 'SUCCESS', 'response': <Charge charge id=ch_2OXdxxxxNVw at 0xb508e76cL> JSON: {
"amount": 100,
"amount_refunded": 0,
"balance_transaction": "txxxn_xxxxxxxxO",
"captured": true,
"currency": "usd",
"customer": null,
"description": null,
}}

Answer 1

the interpreter never reaches this part
request.session['response'] = response
this means that either our form isn't valid or the method of the request isn't POST
try to replace
if request.method == 'POST':
with
if request.POST:
and if it doesn't work set the request.session['response'] to any other value just to make sure that the sessions framework isn't broken.
You need to debug further, I'm 100% sure that this isn't a session problem.