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I'm working on setting up a batch process in Drupal 8 that will gather a bunch of remote information for a collection of entities, cache it, and create a list of the results on its own page. The batch process is kicked off from a form using batch_set().

The batch job runs fine, but I'm not sure how to do the redirect at the end. Since Drupal 8 uses RedirectResponse objects or $this->redirect('user.page'); in a controller and the callback for a batch job doesn't have a return type, I'm not sure what to use to trigger the redirect.

I've tried using the url_options value of the batch job definition but that's not working.

$batch = [
  'title'    => $this->t('job running'),
  'init_message' => $this->t('starting job'),
  'operations'  => $ops,
  'finished' => '\Drupal\my_module\MyClass::finished',
  'url_options' => [
    'query' => [
      'destination' => '/job/results',
    ],
  ],
];

2 Answers 2

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Apparently I needed to ask to see the answer: return a RedirectResponse from the finish callback:

public static function finished($success, $results, $operations) {
  if ($success) {
    // Here we do something meaningful with the results.
    $message = t("@count tasks were done.", array(
      '@count' => count($results),
    ));
    drupal_set_message($message);
  }

  return new RedirectResponse('/job/results');
}

As far as I can tell this is an undocumented behavior.

From the helpful comment below, you can also add batch_redirect on the batch array that's either a string or Url object:

$batch = [
  'title'    => $this->t('job running'),
  'init_message' => $this->t('starting job'),
  'operations'  => $ops,
  'finished' => '\Drupal\my_module\MyClass::finished',
  'batch_redirect' => '/job/results',
];
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  • 4
    According to \batch_process(), you can also set 'batch_redirect' on the batch array to either a string or Url object or pass it to that function, which is documented on the docblock of batch_set(). The thing is that you don't need to call that function yourself in a form API submit callback, which is the most common use case, so yes, not very obvious. batch API isn't exactly the best documented API in Drupal :)
    – Berdir
    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 22:28
  • @Berdir thanks for the tip. I went looking for something like that and obviously failed to find it.
    – acrosman
    Commented Dec 7, 2016 at 19:53
  • This doesn't work from form-initiated batches, see other answer below. Commented Oct 26, 2022 at 11:22
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This does not seem to work when creating the batch in a form submit handler, the redirect part in $batch is simply ignored.

Redirecting from the submit handler like this works for me:

$form_state->setRedirect('route.name');
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  • Yup this is important because my use case was from a form and attempting to use the 'batch_redirect' option just wasn't working in any incarnation. (It sort of makes sense, but documentation would be nice.) Commented Oct 26, 2022 at 11:21

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