How does loginview decides which form to pass as context to the template

Kunal_ar0ra · July 19, 2020, 8:48pm

If i want to authenticate the user using login view I need to define template_name , redirect_authenticated_user but how do django decide which form are we passing to the template as context .

manit123 · July 20, 2020, 11:31am

All this information is written in the source code of the Loginview itself.
You check the same at the given below link.

github.com

django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/auth/views.py

from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse

from django.conf import settings
# Avoid shadowing the login() and logout() views below.
from django.contrib.auth import (
    REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME, get_user_model, login as auth_login,
    logout as auth_logout, update_session_auth_hash,
)
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib.auth.forms import (
    AuthenticationForm, PasswordChangeForm, PasswordResetForm, SetPasswordForm,
)
from django.contrib.auth.tokens import default_token_generator
from django.contrib.sites.shortcuts import get_current_site
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, QueryDict
from django.shortcuts import resolve_url
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.utils.http import (

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manit123 · July 25, 2020, 9:45am

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