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[Django] Dynamic redirection after login

Here’s how to redirect to the login page in django, making it go to a certain view (by name) after a successful login:

login_url = '%s?next=%s' % (reverse('acct_login'), reverse('jumplog_index'))
return HttpResponseRedirect(login_url)

Notes:

• acct_login is django’s view name for the login page (double check this, as it might change in future django versions);
• jumplog_index is the target view where I want the user to go after successfully logging in.

UPDATE: An alternative, much more awesome, is to use the @login_required decorator on the view you want login to be required. Like so:

@login_required
def index(request):
   # Your code here

The decorator can be imported from this module:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

I guess the first dirtier method can be used when you want to do something more custom, like sending some data to the login view, or something like that

Thanks for the tip, Steve

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