How to set cookie in Django and then render template?

Question

I want to set a cookie inside a view and then have that view render a template. As I understand it, this is the way to set a cookie:

def index(request):
            


        

Answer 1

If you just need the cookie value to be set when rendering your template, you could try something like this :

def view(request, template):
    # Manually set the value you'll use for rendering
    # (request.COOKIES is just a dictionnary)
    request.COOKIES['key'] = 'val'
    # Render the template with the manually set value
    response = render(request, template)
    # Actually set the cookie.
    response.set_cookie('key', 'val')

    return response