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Reputation: 432

Retrieving Currently Logged In User From Dajax Function

I'm currently using a dajaxice call in a template, and I'd like to be able to retrieve the currently logged in user within the python function my dajax calls.

I know that the dajax passes a 'request' parameter to the python function which contains the session ID, but I've had no luck ascertaining the type of variable 'request' is. I've tried converting it to a string, decoding it as a JSON string, and multiple other methods.

All I'd like to be able to do is find the currently logged in user within the python function which dajax calls, without passing it in from the actual template, as that's unreliable security-wise.

A broken down version of my relevant code:

Dajax Call:

Dajaxice.fortura_test.rbac_test(rbac_callback,{});

rbac_test():

@dajaxice_register
def rbac_test(request):
    import re;
    from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    request_string = str(request);
    request_list = [];
    for x in request_string:
        request_list.append(x);
    request_string = ''.join(request_list);
    m = re.match(r"'sessionid'\: '([A-Za-z0-9]+)'",request_string);
    if m is not None:
        session_key = m.group(0);
        session = Session.objects.get(session_key=session_key)
        uid = session.get_decoded().get('_auth_user_id')
        user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
        return user.id
    else:
        return 'No match';

The method above I'm currently using doesn't quite work, but I feel like there should be a better way than how I'm approaching this at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 158

Answers (1)

Timmy O'Mahony
Timmy O'Mahony

Reputation: 53998

If that is a normal Django view then request is Django's HTTPRequest object and you can get the currently logged in user using request.user which will return a contrib.auth.models.User instance (you can make sure they are logged in by using request.user.is_autenticated())

Upvotes: 1

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