Introduction
This is another article which has a connection with the previous one. The connection is in the term of the subject or the discussed material. It exist within the article ‘How to Solve Error Message ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘get’ when returning String Value to an Index Page of Django Application. It also exist in the article ‘How to Solve Error Message PermissionError at / [Errno 13] Permission denied when changing index page in Django Application. Actually, the case is using a Django application exist in ‘How to Change Default Page of a Django Application‘. So, upon executing a Django application, it generates error as follows :
AttributeError at / 'str' object has no attribute 'META' Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/ Django Version: 4.1.1 Exception Type: AttributeError Exception Value:
Actually, the trigger for the error message exist in the ‘views.py’ file. For more information about the structure of the Django application as an example in this article, just check ‘How to Change Default Page of a Django Application‘. So, below is the content of the ‘views.py’ which is part of the application folder :
from django.shortcuts import render
# Create your views here.
def index(request):
render("<h2>Hello World</h2>","index.html")
How to Solve Error Message AttributeError at / ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘META’
This part will focus on how to solve how to handle the error message appear as it exist in the previous part. So, in order to solve it, just change the content of the ‘views.py’ file. Just replace one line exist in the ‘views.py’ file. That line exist inside the ‘index’ method or function. So, below is the revision of the ‘views.py’ file in order to handle for solving the problem or the error message :
from django.shortcuts import render # Create your views here. def index(request): return render(request,"index.html")
It is the correct usage of rendering a page. Actually, there is a return statement which is going to pass or to return an HttpResponse object. It exist in the manual page of render method in this link. But the usage must follow the rules of the syntax. For the ‘render()’ method it need a HttpRequest object. As in the above correction for an example, it is using the ‘request’ object. Another parameter which is very important as it is required to have when using ‘render()’ method is the template name. In this context, the template name is ‘index.html’.