Django request.user is model, for admin and normal user

Question

I want to autocomplete 2 fields:

created_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='created_by')
updated_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='updated_by')

for normal users and for django admin.

If for normal users I can use get request.user from my view(found some solutions here on the site),but this is not the case for admin/staff because I don't control the views, so I'm searching for a solution at the Model level by overwriting the save function.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 19 '17 at 07:18

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May be the solution with default user by Middleware help you.

django-populate-user-id-when-saving-a-model

edited Aug 19 '17 at 07:18

Arpit Solanki

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answered Aug 13 '17 at 14:06

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post relevant part of the solution in the question itself. Link only answers are not acceptable – Arpit Solanki Aug 13 '17 at 14:35
thanks, but is a 8 year old thread so I thought there is something better for Django 1.11; using a middleware means that I push it everywhere and I don't really want that – user3541631 Aug 21 '17 at 17:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '17 at 09:48

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='created_by')

updated_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='updated_by')

Then in your view, you can do this :

form.created_by = request.user
form.updated_by = request.user

It's going to autocomplete by the current user who made the action.

May be I didn't understant your question, so may be this is what you're looking for : How to auto insert the current user when creating an object in django admin?

with the view I know, but in admin I don't control the view. The link helped me, I modified the answer from that post, to make a distinction between when is created and when is changed — user3541631, Aug 21 '17 at 17:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2017-08-17T08:25:39.220

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is pretty simple, just add to your field: editable=False Like this:

created_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, editable=False, related_name='created_by')

edited Aug 17 '17 at 08:25

answered Aug 17 '17 at 08:19

my need to get request.user in both normal model and admin model/form, nothing to do with "editable=False". If I don't get this info the field/foreign key will be empty/blank/null, which will give an error – user3541631 Aug 21 '17 at 17:28

Django request.user is model, for admin and normal user

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