Creating temporary user accounts - Django

Question

I need to setup temporary User models for each visitors, where the visitors are obviously tied by session data.

I might not be aware of it, but does Django support attaching data to Anonymous users?

The only way, I am currently aware of, is to use the session dictionary part of the request object.

Help would be very much appreciated!

What's wrong with using the session framework? Isn't that what it's for? — Daniel Roseman, Mar 19 '10 at 22:42
@DanielRoseman if you have a (temporary) user, you can save related data, and just take it and go ahead when the user is getting real/official. I guess this is the reason the OP requests this. — benzkji, Nov 27 '18 at 23:36

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '10 at 22:46

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Have a look at django-lazysignup

django-lazysignup is a package designed to allow users to interact with a site as if they were authenticated users, but without signing up. At any time, they can convert their temporary user account to a real user account.

answered Mar 19 '10 at 22:46

Benjamin Wohlwend

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@piquadrat wow thanks, that's great! It looks pretty fresh too! – RadiantHex Mar 19 '10 at 22:54
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[django-guest-user](https://django-guest-user.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) seems to have replaced __django-lazysignup__ – AlexisLP Nov 30 '22 at 14:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '20 at 06:03

I suggest you look for sessions. They use cookies, store a unique id into a cookie which is linked to a file on your server containing their data.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/

Creating temporary user accounts - Django

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