Set Default Page on Hue - django

Question

I am new to Django. I'd like to make some edits to Hue (the Hadoop UI), and don't know what to change. I'd like to set the default page to the filebrowser, so that when a user logs in the first page they will go to is filebrowser. I know that Hue provides a redirect functionality with ?next=, but this does not work behind my VIP (when I point my VIP to the next URL, it redirects but then resolves to the true IP address rather than the virtual, which is not what I want). I'd like to hardwire changes so that the default URL is always the filebrowser, how can I do this?
My current strategy is to edit urls.py in /desktop/core/src/desktop and add the following line:
dynamic_patterns += patterns('filebrowser.views',
url(r'^$', 'index', name='index'),
)
However I keep getting the error:
Traceback:
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.6.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
111. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/apps/filebrowser/src/filebrowser/views.py" in index
99. return view(request, path)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/apps/filebrowser/src/filebrowser/views.py" in view
161. return listdir_paged(request, path)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/apps/filebrowser/src/filebrowser/views.py" in listdir_paged
435. return render('listdir.mako', request, data)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/django_util.py" in render
222. **kwargs)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/django_util.py" in _render_to_response
144. return django_mako.render_to_response(template, *args, **kwargs)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/django_mako.py" in render_to_response
117. return HttpResponse(render_to_string(template_name, data_dictionary), **kwargs)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/django_mako.py" in render_to_string_normal
106. result = template.render(**data_dict)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Mako-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/mako/template.py" in render
443. return runtime._render(self, self.callable_, args, data)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Mako-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/mako/runtime.py" in _render
786. **_kwargs_for_callable(callable_, data))
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Mako-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/mako/runtime.py" in _render_context
818. _exec_template(inherit, lclcontext, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Mako-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/mako/runtime.py" in _exec_template
844. callable_(context, *args, **kwargs)
File "/tmp/tmp13I5gT/filebrowser/listdir.mako.py" in render_body
73. __M_writer(escape(unicode( fb_components.menubar() )))
File "/tmp/tmp13I5gT/filebrowser/fb_components.mako.py" in render_menubar
260. __M_writer(escape(unicode(app_name)))
File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.6.0/build/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Mako-0.8.1-py2.6.egg/mako/runtime.py" in __str__
205. raise NameError("Undefined")
Exception Type: NameError at /
Exception Value: Undefined

Answer 1

I have gained some more familiarity with Django now and was able to meet my requirement. To change the page that users are shown after logging in, edit the following file:
/desktop/core/src/desktop/views.py
In here we need to edit the index function - here is the before and after:
Old:
def index(request):
if request.user.is_superuser and request.COOKIES.get('hueLandingPage') != 'home':
return redirect(reverse('about:index'))
else:
return home(request)
New:
def index(request):
if request.user.is_superuser and request.COOKIES.get('hueLandingPage') != 'home':
return redirect('filebrowser.views.index')
#return redirect(reverse('about:index'))
else:
return redirect('filebrowser.views.index')
#return home(request)
You can write it how you like (clearly the if condition isn't important here) but the important point is to have this function return redirect('filebrowser.views.index')
Note: I have used this workaround with Hue 3.6 and Hue 3.7