Question

My user registration flow has broken. I have the below code in views.py, but receive a no user.url attribute error (as included beneath the views code). The user’s being created properly and I can navigate to the new user profile page, but the link’s broken. I can’t find info on the default user URL call.

Can you help?

views.py

def register(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            new_user = form.save()
            new_user = authenticate(username = request.POST['username'],
                                    password = request.POST['password1'])
            login(request, new_user)
            return HttpResponseRedirect(new_user.url)
    else:
        form = UserCreationForm()
    return render_to_response("registration/register.html", {'form': form},
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Error:

AttributeError at /register/
'User' object has no attribute 'url'
Request Method: POST
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/register/
Django Version: 1.4.1
Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception Value:    
'User' object has no attribute 'url'
Exception Location: /home/methuselah/code/django/ssc/dev/ssc/crewcal/views.py in register, line 74

Answer 1

The user object doesn’t have a url. If you want to set a url for every user, you’ll need to create an additional model with a relation to the user model.

class UserAttribute(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    url = models.URLField(verify_exists=False, default="/home/page/")

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.user.username

I don’t know why you would want to set a unique url for every user though since you can retrieve the user on every request via request.user once they’re logged in.

So you probably want to just do:

return redirect('/profile/')

and write another view to handle displaying of the profile. It’s tough to answer without more info about what you’re trying to accomplish.