I can't access request in my Django template

Question

Hello Awesome People!

A simple question. I have this view:

def hello(request):
     users_list = User.objects.all()
     context = {"users_list":users_list}
     return render_to_response('index/users-list.html',context=context)

In my template, I want to access COOKIES, with request

 {% for u in users_list %}
 {% if u.id in request.COOKIES.room|split %}
       remove user
 {% endif %}
 {% endfor %}

I tried displaying {{request.COOKIES}} , nothing shown however the key exists. It seems that request isn't available in the template.

split is a custom tag filter

@register.filter    
def split(string_,sep=","):
    return string_.split(sep)

Why I can't access the request? , and also none of my global variables available in my project/context_processors.py are accessible

Answer 1

Don't use render_to_response , it's been obsolete since render was introduced in Django 1.3. The render_to_response function was deprecated in Django 2.0 and will finally be removed in Django 3.0 .

In this case, change the view to use render as follows:

 return render(request, 'index/users-list.html', context=context)

Assuming you have the request context processor enabled in TEMPLATES (it is enabled in the default generated settings file), you will then be able to access request in the template.