I'm trying to build a Django webapp to test the functionalities of a Forex Converter I installed with pip. I created an application with django-startapp Converter and routed the url /convert to the view convert_view().
This is my views.py file:
from django.shortcuts import render
from forex_python.converter import CurrencyRates
# Create your views here.
def convert_view(request):
if request.method == "POST":
c = CurrencyRates()
print(c.convert('EUR', 'RON', request.POST.get('eur')))
context = {}
return render(request, "convert.html", context)
Also, because my view returns a template convert.html, I created a form there. This is my convert.html:
{% csrf_token %}
<form action="." method="POST">
<input type="text" name="eur" placeholder="EUR">
<input type="submit">
</form>
As you can see, just a simple page that has a form inside it, redirects to the same page and uses POST to send the data. It also uses the {% csrf_token %} tag, so there shouldn't be any problems.
When I navigate to /convert everything works fine. I type in the amount of money I like to convert from EUR to RON, but when I send the POST request, I get redirected to an error page, telling me:
CSRF token missing or incorrect.
I read another article on stack overflow about not using request as a parameter in the render() function, but I'm doing it.
What is wrong? What can I do to fix this error? Thank you.
Please put {% csrf_token %} inside <form> tag. This will solve the issue.