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jph
jph

Reputation: 367

Error: MyUser matching query does not exist - Django

I am trying to include the username in the url, but I can no longer logout without getting this error:

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It traces back to this line in views.py:

u = MyUser.objects.get(username=username)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Here is my views.py:

@login_required
def account_home(request, username):
u = MyUser.objects.get(username=username)
return render(request, "accounts/account_home.html", {})

def auth_logout(request):
logout(request)
return HttpResponseRedirect('/')

urls.py

urlpatterns += patterns('accounts.views',
# url(r'^account/$', 'account_home', name='account_home'),
url(r'^(?P<username>[\w.@+-]+)/$', 'account_home', name='account_home'),
url(r'^logout/$', 'auth_logout', name='logout'),
url(r'^login/$', 'auth_login', name='login'),
url(r'^register/$', 'auth_register', name='register'),
)

Thanks guys!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 696

Answers (2)

knbk
knbk

Reputation: 53669

Django uses the first view that matches your query. As your account_home view is the first view in the list, and it matches /logout/, /login/ and /register/, all these url's are directed at the account_home view. As you don't have a user with those names, you get that error.

To fix it, the very least you need to do is move the account_home view to the end of the list. You probably also want to add some code that properly handles non-existent users, e.g. get_object_or_404

Upvotes: 2

Peter DeGlopper
Peter DeGlopper

Reputation: 37319

The problem is with your url matching regular expressions. Django uses the first matching pattern, and /logout/ matches r'^(?P<username>[\w.@+-]+)/$' - it's looking for a user named logout.

You can either reorder your url patterns to put the username pattern at the end, or (a better solution) put something unambiguous in your pattern like r'^/account/(?P<username>[\w.@+-]+)/$'.

Upvotes: 0

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