Adding extra_context in Django logout built-in view

Question

In django/contrib/auth/views.py there is the definition of the logout view :

def logout(request, next_page=None,
       template_name=\'registration/logged_o         


        

Answer 1

When you write logout(extra_context={'title':'something else'}), you're actually calling logout right there in the URLconf, which won't work. Any URLconf tuple can have an optional third element, which should be a dictionary of extra keyword arguments to pass to the view function.

(r'^accounts/logout/$', logout, {'extra_context':{'title':'something else'}}),

Alternatively, you could write your own view which calls logout passing in whatever arguments you want -- that's typically how you would "extend" function-based generic views in more complicated cases.