Django and Middleware which uses request.user is always Anonymous

Question

I\'m trying to make middleware which alters some fields for the user based on subdomain, etc...

The only problem is the request.user always comes in as AnonymousUser wit

Answer 1

Based on Daniel Dubovski's very elegant solution above, here's an example of middleware for Django 1.11:

from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
from organization.models import OrganizationMember
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist


def get_active_member(request):
    try:
        active_member = OrganizationMember.objects.get(user=request.user)
    except (ObjectDoesNotExist, TypeError):
        active_member = None
    return active_member


class OrganizationMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response


    def __call__(self, request):
        # Code to be executed for each request before
        # the view (and later middleware) are called.

        request.active_member = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_active_member(request))

        response = self.get_response(request)

        # Code to be executed for each request/response after
        # the view is called.
        return response