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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Takin' Names Controlling sessions

Jay McCormick
Jay McCormick
6,646 Points

logout_user

Is there something I missed here? I thought this was pretty straightforward, but my code isn't passing.

lunch.py
from flask import Flask, g, render_template, flash, redirect, url_for
from flask.ext.bcrypt import check_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import LoginManager, login_user, current_user, login_required, logout_user

import forms
import models

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'this is our super secret key. do not share it with anyone!'
login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'


@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
    try:
        return models.User.select().where(
            models.User.id == int(userid)
        ).get()
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        return None


@app.before_request
def before_request():
    g.db = models.DATABASE
    g.db.connect()
    g.user = current_user


@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    g.db.close()
    return response


@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register():
    form = forms.SignUpInForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        models.User.new(
            email=form.email.data,
            password=form.password.data
        )
        flash("Thanks for registering!") 
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)


@app.route('/login', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def login():
    form = forms.SignUpInForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        try:
            user = models.User.get(
                models.User.email == form.email.data
            )
            if check_password_hash(user.password, form.password.data):
                login_user(user)
                flash("You're now logged in!")
            else:
                flash("No user with that email/password combo")
        except models.DoesNotExist:
              flash("No user with that email/password combo")
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)

@app.route('/logout')
def logout():
  logout_user()
  return redirect(url_for('/login'))


@app.route('/secret')
@login_required
def secret():
    return "I should only be visible to logged-in users"

1 Answer

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points

You were VERY close.

Take the leading / off your login url. Also it is a good idea to use the login_required decorator, just to be sure. ;)

Here is how your code would look with those changes.

@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
  logout_user()
  return redirect(url_for('login'))
Jay McCormick
Jay McCormick
6,646 Points

oh man that was close, but still so far! why no '/' in the url_for redirect?

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points

The url_for will prefix the URL and then finish the prefix with a /. So you putting the / in there actually made it // which is why it was returning a 404. :)

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

You don't include slashes because the flask url_for() function "accepts the name of the function as first argument and a number of keyword arguments, each corresponding to the variable part of the URL rule. Unknown variable parts are appended to the URL as query parameters." [See docs]

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
22,159 Points

Yeah, like Chris said. :)

Thanks Chris.