Login view should call an empty hook in the authentication form

[freyley]

In django.contrib.auth.views.login, it'd be really nice if this:

# Okay, security checks complete. Log the user in.
auth_login(request, form.get_user())

if request.session.test_cookie_worked():

request.session.delete_test_cookie()

return HttpResponseRedirect(redirect_to)

were changed to this:

# Okay, security checks complete. Log the user in.
auth_login(request, form.get_user())

form.after_login_hook(request)

if request.session.test_cookie_worked():

request.session.delete_test_cookie()

return HttpResponseRedirect(redirect_to)

(and, django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm, add

def after_login_hook(self, request):

pass

)

To allow for people who want to affect the session after login. The use case I just wanted it for is is adding a "remember me" checkbox. I can add it to the form easily enough, but since the form doesn't have access to the session, I also have to duplicate the view.

[Luke Plant]

I'm pretty sure that this can easily be achieved by use of the ​user_logged_in signal. Please re-open if there is a reason this will not work.