This can be done with the threadlocals middleware: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser
On 5/16/08, Chris Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Django has that nice "auto_add=True" property you can set on a model's > field. I have two fields in my models called "created_at" and > "updated_at" that keeps track of each model instance's creation/ > modification date. It's incredibly easy. > > I also want to keep track of which user created/updated each instance. > Right now, I'm doing this from my views -- I just get the user from > the request object and manually populate my "created_by" and > "updated_by" fields. This definitely violates the DRY principle... I > would love to move this code into my model code (by maybe overriding > the save method), but I don't think I have access to the request > object in my models. > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
