On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Luke Plant wrote:
>
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 16:40, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>
>> so I'd like to add userinfo to the context by default. To do that,
>> I've figured out that I need to add my own function to
>> TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, but I'm a little confused how to get the
>> currently logged in user so I can get the appropriate user info.
>>
>> def userInfoProcessor(request):
>> #this will get called after django.core.context_processors.auth, so
>> #the user will be in the context, but how do I get access to the
>> context
>> #if I only have an HttpRequest instance?
>> ui = #somehow get the appropriate UserInfo instance
>> return { 'userinfo':ui }
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> You can get the User object direct from the request object --
> request.user (assuming it is the currently logged in user you want),
> and get the UserInfo from that.
Thanks. This worked great.
Is there a list of attributes for an HttpRequest object somewhere?
Todd
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