Example of calling another view from a new view in Django

main.py

from django.http import Http404, HttpRequest, QueryDict, HttpResponse
from . import views
import json

# The following code sample shows you how to call another method
# from a view to another. This is pretty useful if you're querying internal APIs.
# I normally have separate views for public and cron type Apis, sometimes you want to call
# an existing view and get the information (or process something) rather than using the requests method in python.


def main(request):
    # Start by initialising the HttpRequest() class
    req = HttpRequest()
    # Create a QueryDict for POST or GET, you can also modify other class variables
    req.GET = QueryDict("hash=12312323&hello=123" , mutable=False)
    # Call up the views.py OldMethod
    jsonResponse = views.OldMethod(req)
    # Process the returned JsonResponse()
    jsonData = json.loads(jsonResponse.content)

    # you can also check if it returned a 200 status code
    if (jsonResponse.status_code == 200):
        # do what you want here
        return redirect(jsonData['signed_url'])