[Answered ]-Using Django DeleteView and getting a 404 after delete confirmation

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The method="…" of the form is "POST", not the action="…":

<form method="post">
     {% csrf_token %}
     <p>Are you sure you want to delete {{organism.genus}} {{organism.species}} {{organism.strain}}?</p>
     <p>This cannot be undone!</p>
     <input type="submit" class="btn btn-danger" value="confirm"/>
 </form>

It might be better to work with reverse_lazy(…) [Django-doc] to determine the path of the success_url:

from django.urls import reverse_lazy

class OrganismDeleteView(LoginRequiredMixin, DeleteView):
    model = Organism
    success_url = reverse_lazy('organism_list')
    template_name = 'library/organism_delete.html'
    login_url = '/login'
👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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When you do <form action="post" ..., you are asking the form to "append post to the current URL, using a GET request, and go the endpoint with ‘your data’".

More details here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_action.asp

I am not sure how will you manage to make the page call again the same page (maybe omit action="...", but you should add (change) method="..."; from the implicit method="get", make it a method="post" instead.

Without being a django connoisseur myself, it would be nice if you could "easily" teach django to listen to the method="delete" instead of POST, as it will make your API a tad more semantic.

👤Stavros

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