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django-currentuser
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.. contents:: Conveniently store reference to request user on thread/db level.
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Quickstart
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Install django-currentuser::
pip install django-currentuser
Add it to the middleware classes in your settings.py::
MIDDLEWARE = (
...,
'django_currentuser.middleware.ThreadLocalUserMiddleware',
)
Then use it in a project::
from django_currentuser.middleware import (
get_current_user, get_current_authenticated_user)
# As model field:
from django_currentuser.db.models import CurrentUserField
class Foo(models.Model):
created_by = CurrentUserField()
updated_by = CurrentUserField(on_update=True)
Differences to django-cuser
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Both libraries serve the same purpose, but be aware of these
differences (as of django-cuser v.2017.3.16):
- django-currentuser's CurrentUserField stores the reference to the request user
at initialization of the model instance and still allows you to overwrite the
value before saving. django-cuser sets the value in the pre_save handler
of the field just before writing it to the database. Intermediate changes
will be ignored.
- django-cuser deletes the user reference from the thread after finishing a
response and it will therefore no longer be available for testing purposes.
Release Notes
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* 0.5.3 - add support for Django 3.2 and Python 3.9
* 0.5.2 - Fixed Django deprecation warning about using `ugettext_lazy()`
* 0.5.1 - add support for Django 3.1 and Python 3.8
* 0.5.0
- add support for update on save (thank you @felubra)
- no longer build on Python 3.5, deprecated
* 0.4.3 - add support for Django 3.0
* 0.4.2 - Minor fix for supported Django and Python versions
* 0.4.0 - update supported versions
- drop support for Python 3.4
- drop support for Django 2.0
- add support for Python 3.7
- add support for Django 2.2
- update tox3travis.py to not loose deployment feature
* 0.3.4 - Use public Travis for packaging to remove dependency on outdated build
system
* 0.3.3 - drop Python 3.7 support due to build process problems
* 0.3.1 - attempt to add Python 3.7 support
* 0.3.0 - update supported versions according to
https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions and
https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
- drop support for Python 3.2
* 0.2.3 - support custom user model, drop Django 1.10 support
* 0.2.2 - support Django 2.0
* 0.2.1 - version fixes #9
- support Django 1.11.x and not just 1.11.0
* 0.2.0 - New middleclass format
- Adapt to new object based middle class format of Django 1.10+
- Drop support for deprecated Django versions 1.8 and 1.9
* 0.1.1 - minor release
- suppress warning for passed kwargs as long as they match the defaults (avoids them being printed during running tests when fields are cloned)
* 0.1.0 - initial release
- provides middleware + methods to set + retrieve reference of currently logged in user from thread
- provides CurrentUserField that by default stores the currently logged in user
- supports Django 1.10, 1.11 on python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 - as per the `official django docs <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django>`_
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Contributing
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As an open source project, we welcome contributions.
The code lives on `github <https://github.com/PaesslerAG/django-currentuser>`_.
Reporting issues/improvements
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Please open an `issue on github <https://github.com/PaesslerAG/django-currentuser/issues/>`_
or provide a `pull request <https://github.com/PaesslerAG/django-currentuser/pulls/>`_
whether for code or for the documentation.
For non-trivial changes, we kindly ask you to open an issue, as it might be rejected.
However, if the diff of a pull request better illustrates the point, feel free to make
it a pull request anyway.
Pull Requests
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* for code changes
* it must have tests covering the change. You might be asked to cover missing scenarios
* the latest ``flake8`` will be run and shouldn't produce any warning
* if the change is significant enough, documentation has to be provided
To trigger the packaging, run `make release` on the master branch with a changed
version number.
Setting up all Python versions
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::
sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
for version in 3.6 3.7; do
py=python$version
sudo apt-get -y install ${py} ${py}-dev
done
Code of Conduct
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As it is a Django extension, it follows
`Django's own Code of Conduct <https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/>`_.
As there is no mailing list yet, please just email one of the main authors
(see ``setup.py`` file or `github contributors`_)
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.. _github contributors: https://github.com/PaesslerAG/django-currentuser/graphs/contributors