What is the user's username?

Question

In one of my Django models, I override the save function. I do this to get the user's username. But that keeps failing.

this is what i did:

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    self.slug = slugify('%s' % (self.question))
    if not self.id:
        self.publish_date = datetime.datetime.now()
        self.publisher = self.request.user
    self.modification_date = datetime.datetime.now()
    self.modifier = self.request.user
    super(Faq, self).save(*args, **kwargs) # Call the "real" save() method

This fails with: 'Faq' object has no attribute 'request'

Thanks.

Answer 1

request is only passed to views, not model methods so you will have to set the publisher in a view.

I would remove the line self.modifier = self.request.user from here and set modifier = request.user at the same time as you set question which I assume you are doing in a view.

Then you can change self.publisher = self.request.user to self.publisher = self.modifier

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

You'll need to pass the request into the save method since it doesn't exist in that context automatically.

def save(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    self.slug = slugify('%s' % (self.question))
    if not self.id:
        self.publish_date = datetime.datetime.now()
        self.publisher = request.user
    self.modification_date = datetime.datetime.now()
    self.modifier = self.request.user
    super(Faq, self).save(*args, **kwargs) # Call the "real" save() method

Usage...

my_faq = Faq()
my_faq.save(request)

Answer 3

If this is for use within the Admin app, as you say in your answer to Jake, then you shouldn't override the model save method at all. Instead, you should override the save_model method of the ModelAdmin class.

See the original code in django.contrib.admin.options - you'll see that it's already passed the request object. So all you need to do is to assign the publisher there:

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
    obj.slug = slugify('%s' % (obj.question))
    if not obj.id:
        obj.publish_date = datetime.datetime.now()
        obj.publisher = request.user
    obj.modification_date = datetime.datetime.now()
    obj.modifier = request.user
    obj.save()