[FIXED] ValueError: The view users.views.logout_user didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead

Issue

I am building a blog app in django. But, when I write a function for logging users out, I get this traceback error:

Internal Server Error: /users/logout/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Django\blog\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Django\blog\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 186, in _get_response
    self.check_response(response, callback)
  File "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Django\blog\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 309, in check_response
    "instead." % name
ValueError: The view users.views.logout_user didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead.

My logout_user view function is only two lines, so I can't seem to understand the error. Here is my view function:

@login_required
def logout_user(request):
    logout(request)

Can anyone help me out?

Solution

Because the view must return render response. You should something redirect HttpResponseRedirect()

return HttpResponseRedirect()

To log out a user who has been logged in via django.contrib.auth.login(), use django.contrib.auth.logout() within your view. It takes an HttpRequest object and has no return value.

from django.contrib.auth import logout

def logout_view(request):
    logout(request)
    # Redirect to a success page.

Answered By - mhhabib