Django Authorization- Identify the User in Views

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I'd like to develop an app for multiple clients that displays analytics data specific to their account. So far I've set up my views file using the @login_required decorator for restricted pages. Now I need to identify that user to obtain their data.

A bit of research suggests that I could use:

from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

session_key = request.session.session_key()

session = Session.objects.get(session_key=session_key)
uid = session.get_decoded().get('_auth_user_id')

Which obviously returns the user_id, which I can use as a field in the analytics database to identify which user the data belongs to.

Is this the best way to go about doing this, or can anyone suggest a better/more elegant alternative?

Note: I haven't tested the solution I've proposed, it just seems workable in my head.

Here's a walkthrough of adding user authentication so the page displays the username. : mdukehall.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/… — Duke Hall
– Duke Hall, Commented Dec 19, 2011 at 16:25
Also if you need something more complex/ roles? stackoverflow.com/questions/1546670/django-role-based-views — Duke Hall
– Duke Hall, Commented Dec 19, 2011 at 16:25

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-19 16:31:06Z

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You can access the logged in user on the request object.

@login_required
def my_view(request):
    user = request.user
    do_something(user)
    ...

edited Dec 19, 2011 at 16:31

answered Dec 19, 2011 at 16:22

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second · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-19 16:19:50Z

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when you are in a view, you can access the currently logged in user (object) by

def myview(request):
    request.user

    # or, if you want,
    request.user.id

answered Dec 19, 2011 at 16:19

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