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Rodolpho Pivetta Sabino
Rodolpho Pivetta Sabino

Reputation: 511

rest-framework @detail_route without pk

In rest framework exists some way to use session user instead pk and self.get_object() in a @detail_route view?

I want to use request.user and don't send pk in the url.

Or maybe use another decorator instead @detail_route...

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4262

Answers (2)

Kishor Pawar
Kishor Pawar

Reputation: 3526

In my project, I am using both plain Django and Django-rest-framework and I am using request.user as below.

class ProfileRunCounts(generics.ListCreateAPIView):

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        id = self.request.user

update after comments.

HttpRequest.user
From the AuthenticationMiddleware: An instance of AUTH_USER_MODEL representing the currently logged-in user. If the user isn’t currently logged in, user will be set to an instance of AnonymousUser.

REST framework's Request class extends the standard HttpRequest, adding support for REST framework's flexible request parsing and request authentication.

APIView classes are different from regular View classes in the following ways:

Requests passed to the handler methods will be REST framework's Request instances, not Django's HttpRequest instances.

With above extract from the documentation I believe user object is always available in request. Sometimes it is in self.request.user and sometimes it is in request.user.

Upvotes: 0

Igonato
Igonato

Reputation: 10806

It's hard to tell what you're trying to archive in the first place. Maybe it's easier to use a separate view instead of the viewset action this case? For example here is a view snippet that lets currently logged in user manage his account:

class CurrentUser(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    serializer_class = UserSerializer

    def get_object(self):
        return self.request.user

    def perform_destroy(self, instance):
        instance.is_active = False
        instance.save()

Add this to your urlpatterns without pk in the pattern:

    url(r'^users/me/$', CurrentUser.as_view()),

Upvotes: 9

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