>>
>
> Two ways:
>
> 1) Pass the form which is creating/modifying this object the current
> request. It can then use the request object in the save() method to
> populate the field. Eg:
>
> class FooForm(forms.ModelForm):
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> self.request = kwargs.pop('request')
> super(FooForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
> def save(commit=False):
> foo = super(FooForm, self).save(commit=False)
> if not foo.user:
> foo.user = request.user
> if commit:
> foo.save()
> return foo
>
> Even better would be to not pass around an opaque object which has
> magic data in it - if you need the current user to correctly create
> objects, then pass the user to the form which creates the objects.
>
> 2) At the start of each request, store the current request in thread
> local storage[1], so that it is globally available everywhere.
>
> You may have noticed I can knock out the implementation to 1) from
> rote, this is because this is the correct way of doing it. It's
> harder, more work, and doesn't 'just work', but it means you haven't
> tied your models to only working within the context of a web request.
> For instance, if you went the thread local route, and you wanted to
> run a management command to import data, you would have to prep thread
> local storage with a dummy 'request' object, providing the 'current
> user' to your scripts.
>
Thanks for your reply. But I found out about save_model().
>From there I have access to the HttpRequest object that contains my
>contrib.auth.models.User model.
But that seemed to be half the story.
class Post(models.Model):
def save_model(self, req, obj, form, change):
if self.author is None:
self.author = req.User
Doesn't seem to do the trick. I'm getting error reports telling me author_id
can't be null.
And indeed if I look in my mysql database I see a author_id column and no
author column. Makes sence since author is of the type models.ForeignKey().
Anyway how do I get around this ?
Regards,
Jonas.
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