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kelvinfix
kelvinfix

Reputation: 3075

Django retrieve session user id

I am using login middleware to create a user login form.

What is the best method to retrieve user id from view, after user successfully login?

Created a middleware.py:

class LoginMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request):
        if request.path != self.require_login_path and request.user.is_anonymous():
            if request.POST:
                return login(request)
            else:
                return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?next=%s' % (self.require_login_path, request.path))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4230

Answers (1)

Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt

Reputation: 239200

Once a user has logged in, their associated User object is available via request.user in your template, automatically. When you say "user id", I'm not sure if you mean username or the literal value of id in the database. The same method applies for both, though: {{ request.user.username }} or {{ request.user.id }}.

Additionally, as the commenter above noted, there's no reason to create a new authentication middleware unless you need to change something in how the login is processed. Otherwise, leave it alone and use the default. (Which seems to be what you should be doing based on your middleware).

UPDATE: Neglected to mention that in order to access request.user in your template, you must pass in RequestContext. Example render_to_response below:

from django.template import RequestContext

render_to_response('templates/mytemplate.html', {}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Upvotes: 5

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