Fixed #15552 -- LOGIN_URL and LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL can take URLpattern names.

Thanks UloPe and Eric Florenzano for the patch, and Malcolm Tredinnick for
review.

docs/ref/settings.txt

@@ -1304,25 +1304,13 @@ The URL where requests are redirected after login when the
 This is used by the :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required`
 decorator, for example.
 
-.. _`note on LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL setting`:
+.. versionchanged:: 1.5
 
-.. note::
-    You can use :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse_lazy` to reference
-    URLs by their name instead of providing a hardcoded value. Assuming a
-    ``urls.py`` with an URLpattern named ``home``::
-
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
-            url('^welcome/$', 'test_app.views.home', name='home'),
-        )
-
-    You can use :func:`~django.core.urlresolvers.reverse_lazy` like this::
-
-        from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse_lazy
-
-        LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = reverse_lazy('home')
-
-    This also works fine with localized URLs using
-    :func:`~django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns`.
+This setting now also accepts view function names and
+:ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>` which can be used to reduce
+configuration duplication since you no longer have to define the URL in two
+places (``settings`` and URLconf).
+For backward compatibility reasons the default remains unchanged.
 
 .. setting:: LOGIN_URL
 
@@ -1334,8 +1322,13 @@ Default: ``'/accounts/login/'``
 The URL where requests are redirected for login, especially when using the
 :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required` decorator.
 
-.. note::
-    See the `note on LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL setting`_
+.. versionchanged:: 1.5
+
+This setting now also accepts view function names and
+:ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>` which can be used to reduce
+configuration duplication since you no longer have to define the URL in two
+places (``settings`` and URLconf).
+For backward compatibility reasons the default remains unchanged.
 
 .. setting:: LOGOUT_URL
 

docs/releases/1.5.txt

@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@ Django 1.5 also includes several smaller improvements worth noting:
   argument. By default the batch_size is unlimited except for SQLite where
   single batch is limited so that 999 parameters per query isn't exceeded.
 
+* The :setting:`LOGIN_URL` and :setting:`LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL` settings now also
+  accept view function names and
+  :ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>`. This allows you to reduce
+  configuration duplication. More information can be found in the
+  :func:`~django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required` documentation.
+
 Backwards incompatible changes in 1.5
 =====================================
 

docs/topics/auth.txt

@@ -947,6 +947,13 @@ The login_required decorator
 
         (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
 
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.5
+    
+    As of version 1.5 :setting:`settings.LOGIN_URL <LOGIN_URL>` now also accepts
+    view function names and :ref:`named URL patterns <naming-url-patterns>`.
+    This allows you to freely remap your login view within your URLconf
+    without having to update the setting.
+
 .. function:: views.login(request, [template_name, redirect_field_name, authentication_form])
 
     **URL name:** ``login``