The single most significant advantage is inheritance. On a large project it’s likely that you will have lots of similar views. Rather than write the same code again and again, you can simply have your views inherit from a base view. Also django ships with a collection of generic view classes that can be used … Read more
Use the user_passes_test decorator: from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test @user_passes_test(lambda u: u.is_superuser) def my_view(request): …
The problem was in action of form in my html page: <form action=”{% url ‘task_details’ task.slug %}” method=”POST”> {% csrf_token %} {{ form.feedback_content }} <div class=”panel-buttons”> <div class=”checkbox”> {{ form.is_solved }} </div> <div class=”save-btn-container”> <button class=”btn btn–pill btn–green” type=”submit”>Send</button> </div> </div> </form>
Here’s a simple one: from django.views.generic import DeleteView from django.http import Http404 class MyDeleteView(DeleteView): def get_object(self, queryset=None): “”” Hook to ensure object is owned by request.user. “”” obj = super(MyDeleteView, self).get_object() if not obj.owner == self.request.user: raise Http404 return obj Caveats: The DeleteView won’t delete on GET requests; this is your opportunity to provide a … Read more
Because the view must return render, not just call it. (Note that render is a simple wrapper around an HttpResponse). Change the last line to return render(request, ‘auth_lifecycle/user_profile.html’, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) (Also note the render(…) function returns a HttpResponse object behind the scenes.)
There are two parameters to expire sessions, SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE. If you want to expire in 5 minutes yours settings should like as: SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = False SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 5 * 60 To combine both learn how do it writing your custom middleware “Is there a way to combine behavior of SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE and SESSION_COOKIE_AGE”
try: user = UniversityDetails.objects.get(email=email) except UniversityDetails.DoesNotExist: user = None I also see you’re storing your passwords in plaintext (a big security no-no!). Consider using the built-in auth system instead.
How are you uploading the file? I assume with the FileField. The documentation for FileField.upload_to says that the upload_to field, may also be a callable, such as a function, which will be called to obtain the upload path, including the filename. This callable must be able to accept two arguments, and return a Unix-style path … Read more
If your urlconf looks something like this: url(r’^(?P<slug>[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/$’, MyView.as_view(), name=”my_named_view”) then the slug will be available inside your view functions (such as ‘get_queryset’) like this: self.kwargs[‘slug’]
Install pylint-django using pip as follows pip install pylint-django Then in Visual Studio Code goto: User Settings (Ctrl + , or File > Preferences > Settings if available ) Put in the following (please note the curly braces which are required for custom user settings in VSC): {“python.linting.pylintArgs”: [ “–load-plugins=pylint_django” ],}