Not sure if this is still needed but thought I would share my solution: 1) Install django-tracking (thankyou for that tip Van Gale Google Maps + GeoIP is amazing!) 2) Add this middleware: from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session from tracking.models import Visitor from datetime import datetime class UserRestrictMiddleware(object): “”” Prevents more than one user logging in … Read more
You can do this in your settings.py file using the setting ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = { ‘auth.user’: lambda u: “/users/%s/” % u.username, } Here’s a link to the official docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/settings/
You don’t show where you are trying to reverse this URL, but it looks like you have double-quoted it. If you’re using the url tag, note that you don’t need quotes around the url name: {% url django.contrib.auth.views.login %} not {% url ‘django.contrib.auth.views.login’ %}
django.contrib.auth.views.login redirects you to accounts/profile/ right after you log in. You may want to set LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL inside your settings.py file to anything you like..
You can check if request.user.is_anonymous returns True.
First make sure you have SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware middlewares added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. The current user is in request object, you can get it by: def sample_view(request): current_user = request.user print current_user.id request.user will give you a User object representing the currently logged-in user. If a user isn’t currently logged in, request.user will be … Read more
The least painful and indeed Django-recommended way of doing this is through a OneToOneField(User) property. Extending the existing User model … If you wish to store information related to User, you can use a one-to-one relationship to a model containing the fields for additional information. This one-to-one model is often called a profile model, as … Read more
“how can I send the token with post request to my api” From the docs… For clients to authenticate, the token key should be included in the Authorization HTTP header. The key should be prefixed by the string literal “Token”, with whitespace separating the two strings. For example: Authorization: Token 9944b09199c62bcf9418ad846dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b “at api side how … Read more
You have created a new user model but you have not yet specified a manager for that model. If you’re not yet familiar with managers in Django I suggest reading the documentation on that first. As the Django 1.5 say (source): You should also define a custom manager for your User model. If your User … Read more
to get all the permissions of a given user, also the permissions associated with a group this user is part of: from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission def get_user_permissions(user): if user.is_superuser: return Permission.objects.all() return user.user_permissions.all() | Permission.objects.filter(group__user=user)