I have this small blog post app where everything works fine apart from delete view. As soon as I hit delete button I'm moved to my delete post page but when I hit confirm from DeleteView html page I get 405 error
My views.py for delete looks like this:
class DeletePost(DetailView):
model = Articles
template_name = 'delete_article.html'
success_url = reverse_lazy('list_articles')
My html file where the link is mentioned is like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block body %}
<div class="container">
{% for i in articles %}
<div class="jumbotron">
<h2>{{i.title}}</h2>
<p>- {{i.author}}</p>
{{i.created_on}}
{{i.updated_on}}
<p>{{i.content}}</p>
<a class="btn btn-warning" href="{% url 'update_article' i.id %}">Update</a>
<a class="btn btn-danger" href="{% url 'delete_article' i.id %}">Delete</a>
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% endblock %}
urls.py looks this way:
from django.urls import path
from mysite import views
urlpatterns = [
path('articles/', views.PostList.as_view(), name='list_articles'),
path('articles/<pk>/', views.PostDetail.as_view(), name='detail_article'),
path('create/new/', views.CreateNewPost.as_view(), name='create_new_article'),
path('update/<pk>/', views.UpdatePost.as_view(), name='update_article'),
path('delete/<pk>/', views.DeletePost.as_view(), name='delete_article'),
]
and html for DeleteView:
<!DOCTYPE html>
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block body %}
<form method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<p>Are you sure you want to delete "{{ object }}"?</p>
{{ form.as_p }}
<input class='btn btn-danger' type="submit" value="Confirm">
</form>
{% endblock %}