Django - request.user.username inside an @api_view(['GET,'POST']) request function

Asked Jul 06 '17 at 09:40

Active Jul 06 '17 at 09:48

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So I have an @api_view which is based on a post request, which has some parameters sent from the front end. I want to get the username of the loggedin user to perfrom some other actions. But request.user.username always returns "Anonymous User".

If I call request.user.username outside of this request function I get the logged in user returned correctly. What is going wrong here?

@api_view(['GET','POST']) 
def function(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        data = request.data 
        # perform some function
        username = request.user.username
        # perform some other actions

edited Jul 06 '17 at 09:48

asked Jul 06 '17 at 09:40

Jaron

what about the : after the if? even that is a mistake here? – Exprator Jul 06 '17 at 09:46
Now its correct – Jaron Jul 06 '17 at 09:48
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try if request.method == 'GET' and try to print the username once – Exprator Jul 06 '17 at 09:50
are you using custom user model (which is different from a custom user PROFILE model)? – badiya Jul 06 '17 at 09:54
Not a custom user model no. Just a custom user password encryption. – Jaron Jul 06 '17 at 09:56
see if this is of any relevance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5376985/django-request-user-is-always-anonymous-user – badiya Jul 06 '17 at 09:58

Django - request.user.username inside an @api_view(['GET,'POST']) request function

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