How to get the django Current login user？

Question

How to get the django Current login user？

Answer 1

Useful link:

Django User Auth Handling

Edit:

Can you provide an example what you want to achieve by getting the current User? Cause it really vague...

Answer 2

Where do you need to know the user?

In views the user is provided in the request as request.user.

For user-handling in templates see here

If you want to save the creator or editor of a model's instance you can do something like:

model.py

class Article(models.Model):
    created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='created_by')
    created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)
    edited_by  = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='edited_by')
    edited_on  = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
    published  = models.BooleanField(default=None)

admin.py

class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields= ('title','slug','text','category','published')
    inlines = [ImagesInline]
    def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change): 
        instance = form.save(commit=False)
        if not hasattr(instance,'created_by'):
            instance.created_by = request.user
        instance.edited_by = request.user
        instance.save()
        form.save_m2m()
        return instance

    def save_formset(self, request, form, formset, change): 

        def set_user(instance):
            if not instance.created_by:
                instance.created_by = request.user
            instance.edited_by = request.user
            instance.save()

        if formset.model == Article:
            instances = formset.save(commit=False)
            map(set_user, instances)
            formset.save_m2m()
            return instances
        else:
            return formset.save()

I found this on the Internet, but I don't know where anymore

Answer 3

If I understood your question, you want to get access to the current user, regardless where you are.

One way would be caching the user, or the current request, into the threadlocals.

This link can help you: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser