LoginView with Success
Question:
I am currently working with my Django authentification app. My goal is once the user logged in successful I want to redirect it to the index page where my code shows a customised message:
messages.success(request, 'Login Successful', extra_tags='alert alert-dark')
My problem is I didn’t manage to ‘access’ LoginView in my views.py.
I read about SuccessMessageMixin, but this LoginView won’t work (Template Not Found):
class LoginView(auth_views.LoginView):
template_name = "accounts/login.html"
Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Only as long I include template_name in my urls.py it works, but I can’t add the success message mixin there.
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from . import views
app_name = 'accounts'
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='accounts/login.html'), name='login'),
]
Answers:
You have a custom LoginView, but in the urls.py you call auth_views.LoginView.
To call your custom view you should do
from <module_name>.views import LoginView
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', LoginView.as_view(), name='login'),
]
It’s a good idea to have a different name for your custom view, i.e.CustomLoginView.
You can add the followng snippet in the settings.py files:
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ‘/’
You can add your own index page URL in ‘LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL’ variable
I am currently working with my Django authentification app. My goal is once the user logged in successful I want to redirect it to the index page where my code shows a customised message:
messages.success(request, 'Login Successful', extra_tags='alert alert-dark')
My problem is I didn’t manage to ‘access’ LoginView in my views.py.
I read about SuccessMessageMixin, but this LoginView won’t work (Template Not Found):
class LoginView(auth_views.LoginView):
template_name = "accounts/login.html"
Do you have any idea how to solve this?
Only as long I include template_name in my urls.py it works, but I can’t add the success message mixin there.
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from . import views
app_name = 'accounts'
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='accounts/login.html'), name='login'),
]
You have a custom LoginView, but in the urls.py you call auth_views.LoginView.
To call your custom view you should do
from <module_name>.views import LoginView
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', LoginView.as_view(), name='login'),
]
It’s a good idea to have a different name for your custom view, i.e.CustomLoginView.
You can add the followng snippet in the settings.py files:
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ‘/’
You can add your own index page URL in ‘LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL’ variable