Custom LoginView django extra_context

Question

I did a custom loginView and I can't reach the extra_context dictionary in my template. (authentification works fine)

my view file:

from django.contrib.auth import login
from .models import EsportUser

class LoginViewCustom(LoginView):
    #esport_user = EsportUser.objects.first()
    #extra_context = {'test42': esport_user}
    template_name = 'users/login_register.html'
    extra_context = {'test42': 'test'}

my template file (login_register.html):

<a href="#">{% trans "Account" %}  {{  test42 }}</a>

my urls file:

path('login/', views.LoginViewCustom.as_view(), name='login', ),

Thanks, Stéphane

Answer 1

It's not too late to share a good answer:

Check out this similar question , basically you can pass your additional extract context the as_view() method when calling it in the url.

So in your url.py file, you can have something like this :

path('login/', views.LoginViewCustom.as_view(extra_context={'test42': 'test'}), name='login', )