How to get the currently logged in user's user id in Django?

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k44 picture k44 · Sep 27, 2012 · Viewed 191.4k times · Source

How to get the currently logged-in user's id?

in models.py:

class Game(models.model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='game_user', verbose_name='Owner')

in views.py:

gta = Game.objects.create(name="gta", owner=?)

Answer

K Z picture K Z · Sep 27, 2012

First make sure you have SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware middlewares added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

The current user is in request object, you can get it by:

def sample_view(request):
    current_user = request.user
    print current_user.id

request.user will give you a User object representing the currently logged-in user. If a user isn't currently logged in, request.user will be set to an instance of AnonymousUser. You can tell them apart with the field is_authenticated, like so:

if request.user.is_authenticated:
    # Do something for authenticated users.
else:
    # Do something for anonymous users.

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