user object not available in template

[Drew Ferguson]

Hi

Using Django 1.10 

In my templates there is no user object to provide user.is_authenticated

Is there something I have to do to turn this on?

My settings has this

TEMPLATES = [

    {

        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',

        'DIRS': [],

        'APP_DIRS': True,

        'OPTIONS': {

            'context_processors': [

                'django.template.context_processors.debug',

                'django.template.context_processors.request',

                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',

                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',

            ],

        },

    },

]

MIDDLEWARE = [

    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',

    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',

]

Thanks

Drew

[James Bennett]

The auth context processor provides it, but not as a variable named 'user'; instead it's attached to the 'request' variable, so what you want is '{% if request.user.is_authenticated }}'.

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[James Bennett]

Ah, never mind, misread the question.

Are you sure you're using a RequestContext?

[Drew Ferguson]

I just upgraded from 1.5 or something where the code worked fine

I'm not sure what has changed in 1.10 but everything is back to normal after I changed

def homepage(request):

    return render_to_response('xstatic_homepage.html', RequestContext(request))

to

def homepage(request):

    return render(request, 'xstatic_homepage.html')

Can someone explain this for me please?

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[Matthew Pava]

Render_to_response no longer accepts a context instance parameter (or a “dirs” parameter).

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.10/

 

I encourage you to read this document before performing an upgrade:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/upgrade-version/

 

In particular, read the release notes (as time consuming as it is) of each version between the two versions you are upgrading from and to.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/

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