I have a method in my Django app that uses a user ID to find an object. This method is called via an AJAX call. When logged in to a valid user account, no matter what I try, request.user evaluates as a django.utils.functional.SimpleLazyObject object and fails to retrieve the data I want (SkillEntry matching query does not exist when it absolutely does exist). I tried the solution in Django: Filtering drafts by user causes error to no avail.
How can I get user to refer to an actual instance of a user object?
View code:
@login_required
def skill_set(request, name):
skill = Skill.objects.get(slug=name) # Found.
level = 0
user = request.user
if request.method == 'POST':
if user.is_authenticated():
entry = SkillEntry.objects.get(user=user.pk, skill=skill) # Not found.
entry.level = request.POST['level']
entry.save()
return HttpResponse(status=200)
else:
return HttpResponseForbidden()
JavaScript client-side code:
function setSkill(skill, value) {
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("POST", "/skill/" + skill + "/set/", true);
csrftoken = getCookie('csrftoken');
req.setRequestHeader("X-CSRFToken", csrftoken);
req.send('level=' + value);
var elem = document.getElementById('level');
elem.innerHTML = "My skill level is " + value + ".";
}
Is there perhaps something I need to set in the request to maintain the session info? I could swear I've done something like this successfully before on a much earlier version of Django. I'm using 1.4.3.
EDIT:
Here are the model definitions in my models.py:
class Skill(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
slug = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
keywords = models.CharField(max_length=120, blank=True, help_text='List of additional keywords this skill should show up for in search')
description = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
parent = models.ForeignKey('Skill', null=True, blank=True, help_text='Parent skill. Leave blank if this is a root category.')
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
if not self.id:
self.slug = slugify(self.name)
super(Skill, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name
class Meta:
ordering = ('name',)
class SkillEntry(models.Model):
skill = models.ForeignKey('Skill')
level = models.IntegerField()
user = models.ForeignKey(User)
last_updated = models.DateField(auto_now=True)
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = 'Skill Entries'
ordering = ('skill__name',)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.user.username + ' knows ' + self.skill.name + ' at level ' + str(self.level)
