How to use flashes in a template?

[mrichman]

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I can't seem to find an example of how to do this. My method feels like a hack.

I've got my login handler, and I want to show errors if authentication fails. So I'm adding the error to session via AddFlash(). I understand that once the flashes are read from, they are no longer available.

func login(c *gin.Context) {

	username := c.PostForm("username")
	password := c.PostForm("password")

	u := &User{}

	if err := db.Where("username = ? AND password = ?", username, password).First(&u); err != nil {
		session := sessions.Default(c)
		session.AddFlash(err.Error)
		session.Save()
		c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "login.html", gin.H{
			"title": "Login", "session": session,  // SHOULD I HAVE TO PASS SESSION TO MY TEMPLATE?!
		})
	} else {
		session := sessions.Default(c)
		session.Set("user", u.ID)
		session.Save()
		c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "index.html", gin.H{
			"title": "Login", "user": u,
		})
	}
}

And I'm displaying the flashes thusly:

{{ range $flash := .session.Flashes }}
Flash: <li>{{ $flash }}</li>
{{ end }}

Should I have to pass the session to my template just to get at the flashes?

[expatmt]

Try this:

session.Set("user", u.ID)
session.AddFlash("This is a flash message.")
session.Save()
c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "index.html", gin.H{
	"title": "Login",
	"user": u,
	"flashes": session.Flashes(),
})

In the template:

{{range .flashes}}{{.}}{{end}}

~~Although I am unable to decipher how to get the flash keys working, so cannot help on that.~~

To use custom flash containers, so you can have Error, Info, Warning type messages:

session.AddFlash("Warning flash.", "Warn")
session.AddFlash("Info flash.", "Info")
session.Save()

c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "index.html", gin.H{
	"title": "Login",
	"user": u,
	"MsgInfo":    session.Flashes("Info"),
	"MsgWarn":    session.Flashes("Warn"),
})

And in the template:

{{range .MsgInfo}}{{.}}{{end}}
{{range .MsgWarn}}{{.}}{{end}}

Seems to be working so far for me.

[leeyuanzhang]

It always seems to exist and won't disappear after Flashes

[leeyuanzhang]

[solved] Save Save Save !!!

[jwwb681232]

There is a problem with carrying the data load template through c.HTML. If there is an error in the submission of a form, return to the previous page, and the form will be submitted repeatedly when F5 refreshes.