How can I get the username of the logged-in user in Django

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How can I get information about the logged-in user in a Django application   For example    I need to know the username of the logged-in user to say who posted a Review    lt form id  formulario  method  POST  action    gt       lt h2 gt Publica tu tuit     usuario username title     lt  h2 gt         csrf token          formulario as p        lt p gt  lt input type  submit  value  Confirmar    gt  lt  p gt   lt  form gt    In usuario username title I get the username  but in the template  I need to get that information from the view    Thanks

User · Answer

request user  has the logged in user   request user username  will return username of logged in user

User · Answer

For template  you can use    firstof request user get full name request user username     firstof will return the first one if not null else the second one

User · Answer

if you are using the old way of writting views  in the way of Function-Based-Views     in your view  you are creating  a new variable called usuario to save the request user probably     but if you returning to the Template a context instance  passing the value of the Context of the request  you will get the logged user  just by accessing the request      In your views file from django shortcuts import render to response from django template import RequestContext def your view request       data              formulario   Formulario                           return render to response  your template html           data  context instance RequestContext request        In your template  lt form id  formulario  method  POST  action    gt       lt h2 gt Publica tu tuit     request user username title     lt  h2 gt         csrf token           formulario as p         lt p gt  lt input type  submit  value  Confirmar    gt  lt  p gt   lt  form gt

User · Answer

request user get username   or request user username  former is preferred    Django docs say      Since the User model can be swapped   out  you should use this method instead of referencing the username   attribute directly    P S  For templates  use    user get username

User · Answer

request user get username   will return a string of the users email   request user username will return a method

User · Answer

You can use the request object to find the logged in user   def my view request       username   None     if request user is authenticated            username   request user username   According to https   docs djangoproject com en 2 0 releases 1 10   In version Django 2 0 the syntax has changed to  request user is authenticated

User · Answer

For classed based views use self request user id

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