Django Creating custom URL for user profile

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})

Henrik Andersson Henrik Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-13T05:56:19

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/.

Django Creating custom URL for user profile

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