Django Creating custom URL for user profile - django

Question

I have an app which allows users to create a profile and log in.
When a user login , he is redirected to 127.0.0.1:8000/profile/
The problem is , I want to customize the URL by adding the user's username to the end of URL e.g example 127.0.0.1:8000/profile/michael
This is a similar question to mine
Django - after login, redirect user to his custom page --> mysite.com/username
"get the username and then do a HttpResponseRedirect to the custom URL."
I just can't seem to figure out how could I pass a username as an argument for HttpResponseRedirect to process into a the custom URL properly.
return HttpResponseRedirect('/profile/?username=%s' % (username, request.path))
def Profile(request):
if not request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('world:LoginRequest'))
person = Person.objects.get(user=request.user)
return render(request,'profile.html',{'person':person})
my URL
url(
r'^profile/$',
'pet.views.Profile',
name = 'Profile'
),
NEW
my views.py
def LoginRequest(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
username = User.objects.get(username=request.user)
url = reverse('Profile', kwargs = {'username': username.username})
return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
if request.method == "POST":
form = LoginForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
username = form.cleaned_data['username']
password = form.cleaned_data['password']
Person = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if Person is not None:
login(request, Person)
username= User.objects.get(username=request.user)
url = reverse('Profile', kwargs = {'username': username.username})
return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
return render(request, 'login.html',{'form': LoginForm()})
url(
r'^login/$',
'pet.views.LoginRequest',
name = 'LoginRequest'
),
url(
r'^profile/(?P<username>\w+)/$',
'pet.views.Profile',
name = 'Profile'
),
def Profile(request,username):
if not request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('world:LoginRequest'))
board = Board.objects.filter(user=request.user)
person = Person.objects.get(user__username=username)
return render(request,'profile.html',{'board':board ,'person':person})

Answer 1

This would be the proper regex for your redirect URL, ie. don't modify the one you have.
url(r'^profile/(?P<username>\w+)/$', 'pet.views.myprofileview', name="detail_profile")
And then to pass an argument to the redirect:
url = reverse('detail_profile', kwargs={'username': profile.firstname})
return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
This leads to also having to define a new view:
def myprofileview(request, username):
person = Person.objects.get(user = request.user)
return render(request,'profile.html',{'person':person})
This would eliminate two behaviours in one view, which I find to be very nice!
We do it this way because it's a string that HttpResponseRedirect accepts so we have to build it accordingly.
This will make a redirect to the myprofileview view and "style", if you could call it that, your url /profile/michael/.

Answer 2

def LoginRequest(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('world:Profile',
kwargs={'username': request.user.username}))
if request.method == "POST":
form = LoginForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
username = form.cleaned_data['username']
password = form.cleaned_data['password']
Person = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if Person is not None:
login(request, Person)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('world:Profile',
kwargs={'username': username}))
return render(request, 'login.html',{'form': LoginForm()})