Like button not recording the data

Question

I have implemented a like button onto my view_post page, but the like's aren't been registered. When the button is clicked the page is redirected correctly but no likes are added.

views

def get_post(request, slug):
    try:
        post = BlogPost.objects.get(slug=slug)
    except BlogPost.DoesNotExist: 
        messages.error(request, 'This post does not exist.')
        post = None

    comment_form = CommentForm()

    return render(request, 'mhpapp/view-post.html', {'post': post, 'comment_form': comment_form,})

def like_post(request, slug):
    template_name = 'view-post.html'
    post = get_object_or_404(BlogPost, slug=slug)

    liked = False

    if post.likes.filter(id=request.user.id).exists():
        post.likes.remove(request.user)
        liked = False
    else:
        post.likes.add(request.user)
        messages.success(request, ("Thanks for the like...:-)"))
        liked = True

    return redirect('get_post', {'slug': slug,})

urls

path('<slug:slug>/', views.get_post, name='viewpost'),
path('<slug:slug>/',views.like_post, name='likepost'),

html

 <strong>{{ post.total_likes }} Likes</strong>
    {% if user.is_authenticated %}
    <form action="{% url 'likepost' post.slug %}" method="POST">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {% if request.user in post.likes.all %} 
            <button class="btn btn-outline-secondary rounded-0 custom-button" id="like" type="sumbit" name="post-id" value="{{ post.slug }}"><i class="fa-solid fa-heart-crack"></i></button>
        {% else %}
            <button class="btn btn-outline-secondary rounded-0 custom-button" id="like" type="sumbit" name="post-id" value="{{ post.slug }}"><i class="fa-solid fa-heart"></i></button>
        {% endif %}
    </form>
    {% else %}
    {% endif %}

Answer 1

You cannot set same path url for two views. django will loop into all url and take first which match the url path.

So in your case, your reversed url likepost always call get_post view I think.

Test like that:

path('view/<slug:slug>/', views.get_post, name='viewpost'),
path('like/<slug:slug>/',views.like_post, name='likepost'),