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Maciejjy
Maciejjy

Reputation: 147

Remove user in Django

I would like to remove user.

I know that probably I can use some library like allauth but I want to do this on my view. I didn't find any tutorial for that so I am trying to do this learn-by-mistakes way.

Ok. so in urls I have:

urlpatterns = [

    ('^remove$', views.remove_user, name="remove"),
]

forms:

class RemoveUser(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username',)

views:

@login_required(login_url='http://127.0.0.1:8000/')
def remove_user(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = RemoveUser(request.POST)
        username = request.POST.get('username')
        if form.is_valid():
            rem = User.objects.get(username=username)
            rem.delete()
            return redirect('main')
    else:
        form = RemoveUser()
    context = {'form': form}
    return render(request, 'remove_user.html', context)

I can access website and type text in textfield. When I type random username I get error "user does not exist" so everything ok, but when I type correct username I get message: "A user with that username already exists" and this user is not removed.

Please, can you help me with that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5622

Answers (1)

utkbansal
utkbansal

Reputation: 2817

Change your form to a normal form-

class RemoveUser(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField()

The view will be as follows -

@login_required(login_url='http://127.0.0.1:8000/')
def remove_user(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = RemoveUser(request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
            rem = User.objects.get(username=form.cleaned_data['username'])
            if rem is not None:
                rem.delete()
                return redirect('main')
            else:
               ## Send some error messgae
    else:
        form = RemoveUser()
    context = {'form': form}
    return render(request, 'remove_user.html', context)

EDIT-- Another way to approach the same problem is to deactivate the user

    if form.is_valid():
        rem = User.objects.get(username=form.cleaned_data['username'])
        if rem is not None:
            rem.is_active = False
            rem.save()

Upvotes: 5

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