Questions about how Django handles user authentication.

[Chen Xu]

Hi Everyone,

I am wondering how request.User get set during the authentication, do we have to do anything like:

request.User = User(....) or it will have value by itself?

Thanks in advance.

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⚡ Chen Xu ⚡

[Avraham Serour]

on your view the request object will be populated already, it is meant for read only, including the user object so you could check for example if the current user is authenticated using the request.user object

good luck

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[Daniel Roseman]

Did you try reading the documentation, which explains all this fully?

request.user (note lower case) is populated by the authentication middleware.

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