Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Users and Account Management
Lecture: People app: an app with users
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I'm going to start here by creating a new app that does some things with users.
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Just open the terminal and I'm going to run the start app management command. I'm going to do that for an app called people.
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The people listing now shows up in pycharm. But before I can add some code I need to update settings. The people apps now ready to go.
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Nothing I haven't seen before. Let me just replace the stub code.
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What I'm going to do next is create a new view that lists all the users in the site. This might be something like a find your friends function.
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Before writing the view, I need some imports you haven't seen before. The first one is the login required decorator that I mentioned a minute ago.
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The 2nd one is the user object, then the usual rendering shortcut and a new one Get object or 404. I'll come back to that one in a bit.
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Now for the view this view is nice and small. The data context contains one thing, a query set filled with all the users in the database.
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The user object is a model like any other. So finding the non staffed users is just a call to filter with the right arguments.
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With the queried users in the context, the render shortcut gets called like other views I've written.
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The only real new thing here is the login required decorator, by placing that over the view function.
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I'm indicating to Django that you must be logged in to see this page. If you are not logged in, Django will automatically redirect you to a login page.
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It even sets a hidden field on the login page, so a successful login will send you back to this page quite handy.
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The profile listing page will contain links to each user's profile page. Well, I've got this file open. Let me add a view for that as well.