#django

Knyght: if I don’t get an answer in here I will, it’s just much easier and much faster to ask here first

:)

I think it's going to be slower if nobody knows the answer

hi there

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its silly probably, but im a bit confused - i'd like to have view for my landing page wired in a way that if user is logged on will be redirected to another view/url, but if he is not he should stay under current url and simply get the page

and i have no idea how to accomplish that

If request.user.is_authenticated(): ...

mattmcc: that i know, the returns are a problem

how can i either return a page or redirect .

?

with class based views of course

does my 'governing' view should be some special class ?

arlekin see the docs there is a reserved variable to set this things

Does it need to be a CBV?

or should i simply alternate between returning redirect and render_to_response

mattmcc: not really

In a CBV, I'd do it in dispatch.

mattmcc: just figured it is the 'modern' way for handling things

If authenticated, redirect, else continue on as normal.

mattmcc: thanks, i'll look into that

CBVs don't replace regular function views, there are always going to be cases where they don't necessarily buy you anything.

so it could be a TemplateView ? if i'd override dispatch() ?

Yeah.

great! i'll try doing that

thanks for help :)

hey guys really need some clarification about nested objects on DRF. I was trying to pass a list of dictionaries through a post call but the all the dicts are being received as strings on the serializers .-.

Is there an example settings.py for me to go off of somewhere? Django 1.9 will not shut up about my TEMPLATES dict missing items.

vyscond: isn't that like the whole point of serializers ?

Evidlo, generate a new django 1.9 project

vyscond: i struggled with such matters in DRF recently so maybe i could be of help

Evidlo: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/templ...

Evidlo https://github.com/vyscond/django-igniter/blob/...

vyscond: if you could elaborate on what are you doing and how

or what mattmcc said

arlekin yep. But i set the child of ListField to receive a Serializer.

Ah, the problem was that I kept the old TEMPLATE settings after I added the new ones

arlekin here is my issue if you could read https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-fram...

vyscond: im on it

vyscond: oh well... i thought you have some nesting issues related to... well.. relations in database, im afraid i'll be of little help here after all, didn't even know there was 'ListField'

mattmcc: funny thing, just discovered that request passed to dispatch is actually some kind of 'meta' request and i need to do: 'request.request.user...' to check

arlekin ok bro

arlekin: Eh, no, it's not. What does your view look like?

mattmcc: i messed up something, just realised

arlekin you messed up for real, no?

mattmcc: its okay now: i misread, and put 'request' in dispatch argument instead of self, hence confusion

vyscond: well, i had worse ;P

hmm...