user object's is_authenticated() method ALWAYS return True even after they log out??

[Chris Seberino]

I tried viewing the value of is_authenticated() for a user and it always is true...before and after logging in and after signing out.

I'm trying to determine if a user has logged in or not.  Is this the right variable to use?  Why not changing?

Thanks.

cs

[Andreas Kuhne]

Hi Chris,

is_authenticated() on a User should always be true. The reason for this is that you check the function on the request.user object. When a user is logged in, it will be true, however, the AnonymousUser returns false, which is the default when a user has not logged in.

So you can only check it in a view.

Regards,

Andréas

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[cmawe...@gmail.com]

Right, the question isn't "is user x logged into the website right now", it actually only makes sense for for request.user. This will return all users in the database: logged_in_users = [user for user in User.objects.all() if user.is_authenticated()]

[Chris Seberino]

Is there a way to answer your question "is user x logged into the website right now" in Django code?

[cmawe...@gmail.com]

something like this may work:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session

User.objects.filter(id__in=(s.get_decoded().get('_auth_user_id') for s in Session.objects.all()))

for s in Session.objects.all()
   

[cmawe...@gmail.com]

or for a specific user:

from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session

any(s.get_decoded().get('_auth_user_id') == user.id for s in Session.objects.all())