pythondjangopython-3.xdjango-rest-frameworkdjango-views

AssertionError: Expected a `Response`, `HttpResponse` or `HttpStreamingResponse` to be returned from view, but received `<class 'NoneType'>`


I have the following model -

class Userdetails(models.Model):

id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True, null=True)
userno = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True, null=True

And following View -

 @api_view(['GET', 'POST'])
    def useroptions(request):        # to create new user
        if request.method == 'GET':
            names = Userdetails.objects.values("name","userno","id")
            return Response(names)

        elif request.method == 'POST':
            count = Userdetails.objects.count()
            serializer = userdetailsSerializer(data=request.data)
            usernos = Userdetails.objects.values("userno")
            names = Userdetails.objects.values("name")
            list_of_names = []
            for ele in names:
                list_of_names.append(ele["name"])

            list_of_usernos = []
            for ele in usernos:
                list_of_usernos.append(ele["userno"])

This gives me this error on CMD -

Internal Server Error: /view/pardel/2/multiuser
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 34, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 115, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 113, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 71, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 507, in dispatch
    self.response = self.finalize_response(request, response, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hostbooks/django1/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 422, in finalize_response
    % type(response)
AssertionError: Expected a `Response`, `HttpResponse` or `HttpStreamingResponse` to be returned from the view, but received a `<class 'NoneType'>`
[13/Feb/2020 08:09:14] "POST /view/pardel/2/multiuser HTTP/1.1" 500 17234

I am not getting the reason for this error and Please me to sort this error out.


Solution

  • You are not returning http response object for POST request. From the django docs:

    Each view you write is responsible for instantiating, populating, and returning an HttpResponse.

    change your view to return http response for post request.

    @api_view(['GET', 'POST'])
    def useroptions(request):        # to create new user
        if request.method == 'GET':
            names = Userdetails.objects.values("name","userno","id")
            return Response(names)
    
        elif request.method == 'POST':
            count = Userdetails.objects.count()
            serializer = userdetailsSerializer(data=request.data)
            usernos = Userdetails.objects.values("userno")
            names = Userdetails.objects.values("name")
            list_of_names = []
            for ele in names:
                list_of_names.append(ele["name"])
    
            list_of_usernos = []
            for ele in usernos:
                list_of_usernos.append(ele["userno"])
            context = {'data': serializer.data, 'names': list_of_names, 'usernos': list_of_usernos} # change it as per your requirement
            return Response(context)