django-currentuser

Conveniently store reference to request user on thread/db level.

• Quickstart
• Differences to django-cuser
• Supported Versions
• Release Notes
• Contributing
  • Reporting issues/improvements
  • Pull Requests
  • Setting up all Python versions
  • Code of Conduct
  • Contributors

Quickstart

Install django-currentuser:

pip install django-currentuser

Note: if there is a new Django version released that the library hasn't been upgraded to support yet, e.g.:

The conflict is caused by:

The user requested django==5.1 django-currentuser 0.8.0 depends on Django<5.1 and >=4.2

you can try to install it with the unsupported/untested Django version by using the DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO environment variable

DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO=1 pip install django-currentuser

Ade it to the middleware classes in your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE = (
    ...,
    'django_currentuser.middleware.ThreadLocalUserMiddleware',
)

Then use it in a project:

from django_currentuser.middleware import (
    get_current_user, get_current_authenticated_user)

# As model field:
from django_currentuser.db.models import CurrentUserField
class Foo(models.Model):
    created_by = CurrentUserField()
    updated_by = CurrentUserField(on_update=True)

Differences to django-cuser

Both libraries serve the same purpose, but be aware of these differences (as of django-cuser v.2017.3.16):

• django-currentuser's CurrentUserField stores the reference to the request user at initialization of the model instance and still allows you to overwrite the value before saving. django-cuser sets the value in the pre_save handler of the field just before writing it to the database. Intermediate changes will be ignored.
• django-cuser deletes the user reference from the thread after finishing a response and it will therefore no longer be available for testing purposes.

Supported Versions

• for django-currentuser`, fixes are always made against the latest version
• for Python, support is guided by https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions
• for Django, support is guided by https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django and https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions (assuming the Python version listed there is supported)

Release Notes

• 0.8.0
  • add support for Django 5.1
  • drop support for Django 3.2
  • introduce DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO environment variable to make upgrades easier
• 0.7.0
  • add support for Django 5.0
  • add support for Python 3.12
  • drop support for Django 4.0 and 4.1
• 0.6.1
  • remove project transfer warning from README in order not to scare people away from the project
• 0.6.0
  • add support for Django 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2
  • add support for Python 3.11
  • drop support for Python 3.6 and 3.7
• 0.5.3 - add support for Django 3.2 and Python 3.9
• 0.5.2 - Fixed Django deprecation warning about using ugettext_lazy()
• 0.5.1 - add support for Django 3.1 and Python 3.8
• 0.5.0 - add support for update on save (thank you @felubra) - no longer build on Python 3.5, deprecated
• 0.4.3 - add support for Django 3.0
• 0.4.2 - Minor fix for supported Django and Python versions
• 0.4.0 - update supported versions
  • drop support for Python 3.4
  • drop support for Django 2.0
  • add support for Python 3.7
  • add support for Django 2.2
  • update tox3travis.py to not loose deployment feature
• 0.3.4 - Use public Travis for packaging to remove dependency on outdated build system
• 0.3.3 - drop Python 3.7 support due to build process problems
• 0.3.1 - attempt to add Python 3.7 support
• 0.3.0 - update supported versions according to https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions and https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
  • drop support for Python 3.2
• 0.2.3 - support custom user model, drop Django 1.10 support
• 0.2.2 - support Django 2.0
• 0.2.1 - version fixes #9
  • support Django 1.11.x and not just 1.11.0
• 0.2.0 - New middleclass format
  • Adapt to new object based middle class format of Django 1.10+
  • Drop support for deprecated Django versions 1.8 and 1.9
• 0.1.1 - minor release
  • suppress warning for passed kwargs as long as they match the defaults (avoids them being printed during running tests when fields are cloned)
• 0.1.0 - initial release
  • provides middleware + methods to set + retrieve reference of currently logged in user from thread
  • provides CurrentUserField that by default stores the currently logged in user
  • supports Django 1.10, 1.11 on python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 - as per the official django docs

Contributing

As an open source project, we welcome contributions.

The code lives on github.

Reporting issues/improvements

Please open an issue on github or provide a pull request whether for code or for the documentation.

For non-trivial changes, we kindly ask you to open an issue, as it might be rejected. However, if the diff of a pull request better illustrates the point, feel free to make it a pull request anyway.

Pull Requests

• for code changes
  • it must have tests covering the change. You might be asked to cover missing scenarios
  • the latest flake8 will be run and shouldn't produce any warning
  • if the change is significant enough, documentation has to be provided

To trigger the packaging, run make release on the master branch with a changed version number.

Setting up all Python versions

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
for version in 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11; do
  py=python$version
  sudo apt-get -y install ${py} ${py}-dev
done

Code of Conduct

As it is a Django extension, it follows Django's own Code of Conduct. As there is no mailing list yet, please use github issues

Contributors

Current maintainer: @zsoldosp Initial development & maintenance: @PaesslerAG

For contributors, see github contributors.