Django: class-view lacking attribute COOKIES

I am currently playing around with REST and backbone.js and ran into this issue: ``` 'LoginView' object has no attribute 'COOKIES' ``` Here comes the following code for might have caused the problem. I have commented out a few things in the javascript, since I wanted it to load directly to the server instead, but I thought it would be just as good to bring it along. I can also add that I have checked for the csrf-token in the form and it is there. views.py ``` class LoginView(TemplateView): authentication_form=LoginForm form_class = LoginForm redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME template_name = 'front/login.html' initial = {'key': 'value'} def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs): form = self.form_class(initial=self.initial) return render(request, self.template_name, {'form': form}) @method_decorator(sensitive_post_parameters()) @csrf_protect @never_cache @api_view(['GET', 'POST']) def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs): form = self.form_class(request.POST) print request.COOKIES('csrftoken') print request.POST.get('csrfmiddlewaretoken') if form.is_valid(): #if not is_safe_url(url=redirect_to, host=request.get_host()): # redirect_to = resolve_url(settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL) print request.POST.get('email') #user = self.get_user(request.POST.get('email')) #print user #auth = UserDataAuthentication(request, user) user = authenticate(email=request.POST.get('email'), password=request.POST.get('password')) if user is not None: auth_login(request, user) return Response(user, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED) return HttpResponseRedirect('/login/') ``` login.js ``` var csrftoken = $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content'); SigninView = Backbone.View.extend({ events: { //"click button[type=submit]": "sendRequest" }, sendRequest: function( event ){ //event.preventDefault(); var csrftoken = $.cookie('csrftoken'); var url = '/login/validate/'; var email = $("#id_email").val(); var password = $("#id_password").val(); var items = { email: email, password: password, csrfmiddlewaretoken: csrftoken }; console.log(csrftoken); $.ajax({ url:url, type:'POST', dataType:"json", data: items, success: function (data) { var json = $.parseJSON(data); console.log(data); }, error: function (xhr, textStatus, error) { $("#form_error").css('padding','7px').css('border-radius','4px').html('Error recieved: ' + error).fadeIn(); console.log("Status: "+textStatus); console.log("Type: "+error); } }); } }); var signin_view = new SigninView({ el: $("#login_form") }); ``` We are two people working on this, I have taken upon myself to work with Python, while my friend takes care of the js-part. I have yet to experience enough of Django to actually find what might have caused an error to arise due to cookies. I try, most of the time, to stay away from cookies, if I can, but it seems difficult here. And of course: The traceback: ``` Traceback: File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 114. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in view 69. return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in dispatch 87. return handler(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in _wrapper 29. return bound_func(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/debug.py" in sensitive_post_parameters_wrapper 75. return view(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in bound_func 25. return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 95. result = middleware.process_view(request, view_func, args, kwargs) File "/home/ryuu/Programming/Python/tabr/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/middleware/csrf.py" in process_view 111. request.COOKIES[settings.CSRF_COOKIE_NAME]) Exception Type: AttributeError at /login/validate/ Exception Value: 'LoginView' object has no attribute 'COOKIES' ```