Get current user log in signal in Django

Question

I am just using the admin site in Django. I have 2 Django signals (pre_save and post_save). I would like to have the username of the current user. How would I do that? It does n

Answer 1

Without hack: use signals when user logs in / out to remember who is logged, and for the Django test framework, as long as you connect and it calls the signals, this will work too:

current_user = None

@receiver(user_logged_in, sender=User)
def user_logged_in(sender, request, user, **kwargs):
    global current_user
    current_user = user

@receiver(user_logged_out, sender=User)
def user_logged_out(sender, request, user, **kwargs):
    global current_user
    current_user = None

@receiver(post_save, sender=StatusHistory)
def status_history_post_save(sender, instance: StatusHistory,
                             created, **kwargs):
    global current_user
    if current_user is None or instance is None or instance.shipment is None:
        return
    # ok if we here -> user is connected, keep on:
    # .........
    # blabla
    # .........