'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'session'

Running python manage.py distill-local site-export produces the response CommandError: Failed to render view "/": 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'session' URLs.py config:

from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView, LogoutView

from . import views

from django_distill import distill_path

def get_index():
    return None
def get_ageVerification():
    return None
def get_register():
    return None
def get_login():
    return None
def get_profile():
    return None
def get_message():
    return None
def get_messages():
    return None
def get_faq():
    return None
def get_legal():
    return None


urlpatterns = [
    distill_path('', views.index, name='index', distill_func=get_index, distill_file="index.html"),
    distill_path('ageVerification', views.ageVerification, name='ageVerification', distill_func=get_ageVerification),
    distill_path('register', views.register, name="register", distill_func=get_register),
    distill_path('login', LoginView.as_view(template_name='user/login.html'), name='login', distill_func=get_login),
    path('logout', LogoutView.as_view(), name='logout'),
    distill_path('accounts/profile/', views.profile, name="profileUser", distill_func=get_profile),
    distill_path('message/<str:username>', views.message, name="message", distill_func=get_message),
    distill_path('messages', views.messages, name="messages", distill_func=get_messages),
    distill_path('faq', views.faq, name="faq", distill_func=get_faq),
    distill_path('legal', views.legal, name="legal", distill_func=get_legal)
]

[meeb]

You do not need to pass in a custom requests object, this is handled for you. However, this view, I suspect, when run via distill won’t do anything. It’ll return a redirect, and probably throw an error for not returning a 200 status code. You can’t distill dynamic actions (decision based redirects, forms, etc.) only static content. For example this will work fine:

def index(request):
    return render(request, "index.html")

But this will not:

def index(request):
    if not request.user.is_authenticated:
        return redirect("/signup")
    return render(request, "index.html")

During building the static site it will always trigger the redirect and result in trying to render a redirect and throwing an error. To make a flat, static site you can only render static views which return HTML and 200 HTTP status code, and it is advisable the views are consistent so always return the same thing when they are called. Obviously a static site can’t support any database or session features at all as no code executes anywhere when looking at a static HTML page.

As for your session error, looks like it could be related to the order of your middleware, does this site work normally without distill under ./manage.py runserver? I’m guessing your ageCheck function tries to set some sort of session variable?

[meeb]

As you’ve not replied for a week I’ll assume this has resolved your issue and close it. Feel free to open another issue if you encounter any more problems.