[Fixed]-How to access current user in Django class based view

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21👍

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You can just overwrite get_queryset:

@login_required
class UserprojectList(ListView):
    context_object_name = 'userproject_list'
    template_name = 'userproject_list.html'
    def get_queryset(self):
        return Userproject.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)

Also you can’t use decorators on classes, so you have to write something like this:

from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator

class UserprojectList(ListView):
    context_object_name = 'userproject_list'
    template_name = 'userproject_list.html'

    @method_decorator(login_required)
    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(UserprojectList, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Userproject.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
👤pythad

6👍

@pythad’s answer is correct. But on Django 1.9+, instead of the dispatch method, you can use django.contrib.auth.mixins.LoginRequiredMixin to replace the old-style @login_required decorator.

from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin

class UserprojectList(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
    context_object_name = 'userproject_list'
    template_name = 'userproject_list.html'

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Userproject.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
👤Quique

0👍

I would try to do that in the __init__ method:

@login_required
class UserprojectList(ListView):
    context_object_name = 'userproject_list'
    template_name = 'userproject_list.html'
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserprojectList, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.queryset = Userproject.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
👤Aidas Bendoraitis

0👍

I think in the class-based views you would need to override the get_queryset() method in order to have access to the self.request object attached to the instance of the view rather than do this at the class level. The Classy Class-Based Views site has more information: http://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/1.8/django.views.generic.list/ListView/

👤devinformatics

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