[FIXED] Django templateview not recognizing my template_name

Issue

Currently I have in settings set my main directory to the templates folder so that I have a project level templates. Within that folder I have a home.html file.

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / "templates"],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
    },
},

]

This is my views.py file:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class HomePageView(TemplateView):
    template_name: "home.html"

Whenever I runserver I receive this error: ImproperlyConfigured at / TemplateResponseMixin requires either a definition of 'template_name' or an implementation of 'get_template_names()'

I'm following a book to the T (Django for Beginners) and I'm unsure why this error could be happening. Has the syntax for template_name changed? I've checked all the documentations and my name seems to be okay. I've also tried to input the pathname to the file instead.

Solution

You have used the view incorrectly. Replace the : with = and it should be fine.

Answered By - William Otieno