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rubik
rubik

Reputation: 9104

Django, switching views basing on the request

I want to display different thing at the same URL (home page) depending on whether a user is logged in or not.

So, if he is not authenticated I'll display a page which does not involve any DB query, otherwise, if he is logged in, I'll display his projects (this involves DB access).

So, how can I accomplish this, given that:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 67

Answers (2)

Sid
Sid

Reputation: 7631

Generally one would use the Login Required decorator but since you only have a single URL you could check whether request.user.is_authenticated() is True. If it's True return the template corresponding to the logged in user, otherwise return the other one.

Class Based Views

Take a look at this: login required in TemplateView

It used the dispatch method to check for a user being authenticated in a class based view.

from django import http from django.views import generic

class AboutView(generic.TemplateView):
    """ About page view. """
    template_name = 'about.html'

    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if not request.user.is_authenticated():
            raise http.Http404
        return super(AboutView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        ctx = super(AboutView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        ctx['something_else'] = None  # add something to ctx
        return ctx

Upvotes: 0

dardo
dardo

Reputation: 4970

Check to see if User.is_authenticated(), if they are, query for the projects, if not don't query for the projects, and in the view see if the projects variable is set or not.

Upvotes: 1

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