[Django]-Accessing user in Class-based generic views

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Works properly in 1.3:

class TestView(DetailView):
    def get(self, request, **kwargs):
        import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

ipdb> request.user
<User: zk>
ipdb> request.user.is_authenticated()
True

Possibly a bug?

👤Zach Kelling

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Try using the decorators from django.contrib.auth.decorators. In your urls.py, you can do something like:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

...
url(r'^something/?$', login_required(MyDetailView.as_view()))
...

For checking permissions, you can use the premissions_required decorator. For more info, check out the docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#the-login-required-decorator

👤Drekembe

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I use mixins for class based views. In this case, you can do it like this:

Django Class-Based Generic Views and Authentication

👤cor

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