login_required decorator in Django: open modal instead of redirecting to another page

[Roh Codeur]

Hi

I have a django app which has certain sections which are reserved for registered users. I have the views annotated with login_required decorator which redirects the user to a login page.

However, I would like to keep the user on the same page and open up a modal dialog prompting user to sign in(like on the website: http://www.fashiolista.com/). To achieve this, I thought I could setup a middleware(instead of using login_required) and return a response like below:

   return HttpResponse("<script>"
       "showLogin()"
       "</script>")

When I try to do this, I realised that this renders a page with only the script tag, which obviously doesnt work.

I am using Bootstrap for showing modal dialogs.

Middleware link: http://onecreativeblog.com/post/59051248/django-login-required-middleware

Any ideas?

[Avraham Serour]

you should return the whole page plus the modal dialog

I would do it in js, the js context should e aware that the session is not logged in and instead of going to the link it should show the modal

and also use the regular login required decorator because some people turn off js

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[Luis Zárate]

You need ajax,

l have suggested django-ajax a lot because it is awesome

https://github.com/yceruto/django-ajax

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[Roh Codeur]

I ended up going with Avraham's response in this. 

[Avraham Serour]

good to know I'm being useful! :) thanks

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