Django - after login redirect user to his custom page -- mysite com username

Question

By default after login django redirects the user to an accounts profile page or if you edit the LOGIN REDIRECT URL you can send the user to another page you specify in the settings py   This is great but I would like the user  after login  to be redirected to a custom page where the link to that page would look something like this  mysite com username  So the default accounts profile or the LOGIN REDIRECT URL settings would not work in this case since both are somehow static  In my case the username section of the address changes for every user    Any ideas how I can make it so when the user is logged in would go to a custom user page that has user s name in the address like   mysite com username   Any input is truly appreciated

User · Answer

Got into django recently and been looking into a solution to that and found a method that might be useful.

So for example, if using allouth the default redirect is accounts/profile. Make a view that solely redirects to a location of choice using the username field like so:

def profile(request):
    name=request.user.username
    return redirect('-----choose where-----' + name + '/')

Then create a view that captures it in one of your apps, for example:

def profile(request, name):
    user = get_object_or_404(User, username=name)
    return render(request, 'myproject/user.html', {'profile': user})

Where the urlpatterns capture would look like this:

url(r'^(?P<name>.+)/$', views.profile, name='user')

Works well for me.

User · Answer

If you re using Django s built-in LoginView  it takes next as context  which is  The URL to redirect to after successful login  This may contain a query string  too    see docs    Also from the docs    If login is successful  the view redirects to the URL specified in next  If next isn   t provided  it redirects to settings LOGIN REDIRECT URL  which defaults to  accounts profile      Example code   urls py  from django urls import path from django contrib auth import views as auth views  from account forms import LoginForm   optional form to pass to view   urlpatterns                    --------------- login url view -------------------     path  account login    auth views LoginView as view          template name  login html             authentication form LoginForm           extra context                   option 1  provide full path              next     account my custom url                    option 2  just provide the name of the url                next    custom url name                       name  login                 login html        lt form method  post  action     url  login      gt               option 1       lt input type  hidden  name  next  value     next     gt        option 2          lt input type  hidden  name  next  value     url next     gt       lt  form gt

User · Answer

You can authenticate and log the user in as stated here  https   docs djangoproject com en dev topics auth default  how-to-log-a-user-in This will give you access to the User object from which you can get the username and then do a HttpResponseRedirect to the custom URL

User · Answer

When using Class based views  another option is to use the dispatch method  https   docs djangoproject com en 2 2 ref class-based-views base   Example Code   Settings py  LOGIN URL    login  LOGIN REDIRECT URL    home    urls py  from django urls import path from django contrib auth import views as auth views urlpatterns     path     HomeView as view    name  home    path  login    auth views LoginView as view   name  login    path  logout    auth views LogoutView as view    name  logout        views py  from django utils decorators import method decorator from django contrib auth decorators import login required from django views generic import View from django shortcuts import redirect   method decorator  login required   name  dispatch   class HomeView View       model   models User      def dispatch self  request   args    kwargs           if not request user is authenticated              return redirect  login           elif some-logic              return redirect  some-page    needs defined as valid url         return super HomeView  self  dispatch request   args    kwargs

User · Answer

Yes  In your settings py define the following  LOGIN REDIRECT URL     your-path    And have   your-path  be a simple View that looks up self request user and does whatever logic it needs to return a HttpResponseRedirect object   A better way might be to define a simple URL like   simple  that does the lookup logic there  The URL looks more beautiful  saves you some work  etc

User · Answer

A simpler approach relies on redirection from the page LOGIN REDIRECT URL   The key thing to realize is that the user information is automatically included in the request  Suppose  LOGIN REDIRECT URL     profiles home   and you have configured a urlpattern   r  profiles home   home    Then  all you need to write for the view home   is  from django http import HttpResponseRedirect from django urls import reverse from django contrib auth decorators import login required   login required def home request       return HttpResponseRedirect                 reverse NAME OF PROFILE VIEW                          args  request user username     where NAME OF PROFILE VIEW is the name of the callback that you are using   With django-profiles  NAME OF PROFILE VIEW can be  profiles profile detail

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