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Django error trying to run server after installing cors-headers


So I'm trying to make a Django back-end for my project. It's my first time doing something like this, so when I got a CORS error (CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.) I Googled what to do. After doing the steps following the documentation, I've got the following error when trying to run 'python manage.py runserver'.

    C:\Users\Bence\Documents\Programozás-tanulás\web50\final project\benefactum>python manage.py runserver
Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Exception in thread django-main-thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python310\lib\threading.py", line 1009, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "C:\Python310\lib\threading.py", line 946, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 115, in inner_run
    autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 87, in raise_last_exception
    raise _exception[1]
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 381, in execute
    autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 24, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 114, in populate
    app_config.import_models()
  File "C:\Users\Bence\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line 300, in import_models
    self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
  File "C:\Python310\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\corsheaders\models.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .signals import check_request_enabled  # noqa
  File "C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\corsheaders\signals.py", line 5, in <module>
    check_request_enabled = django.dispatch.Signal(
TypeError: Signal.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'providing_args'

I've done the following steps, following the documentation:

  1. Installing it from pip (pip install django-cors-headers)
  2. I've added 'corsheaders' to the INSTALLED_APPS (in settings.py)
  3. Adding "corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware", "django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware" to MIDDLEWARE (in settings.py, putting them as high as possible as per document recommendation)
  4. Added CORS_ALLOW_ALL_ORIGINS = True

Is the problem even related to me adding cors-headers? I'm only assuming, because it was working before I did. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Solution

  • Answer:

    Go to your Python installation folder -> Lib -> site-packages -> corsheaders -> signal.py file. (for me it was C:\Python310\Lib\site-packages\corsheaders\signal.py)

    I solved the issue by changing the file to the following:

    from django.dispatch import Signal
    
    # Return Truthy values to enable a specific request.
    # This allows users to build custom logic into the request handling
    check_request_enabled = Signal()
    

    More details and smarter explanation: https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications/issues/322