request.user in Django model

Question

I am using Django models to create the fields for a form. I would like to have the user\'s username automatically detected in and be filled out, this way I can hide it in my for

Answer 1

Here you haven't imported request in that model class scope. This is how you can get user:

# model

class StockTickerSymbol(models.Model):
    StockName = models.CharField(max_length=7, unique=True)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

    def save(self,**kwargs):
      if kwargs.has_key('request') and self.user is None:
            request = kwargs.pop('request')
            self.user= request.user
      super(StockTickerSymbol, self).save(**kwargs)

#views:

def post(self, request):
   if form.is_valid():                         
       sts=StockTickerSymbol()
       sts.StockName= form.cleaned_data['StockName']
       if form.cleaned_data['user'] is None: #null check
          sts.save(request=request)
       else:
          sts.user= form.cleaned_data['user']
          sts.save(request=request)

For modelform:

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    ...

    def save(self, commit=True ,*args, **kwargs):
        request = None
        if kwargs.has_key('request'):
            request = kwargs.pop('request')
        m = super(SomeForm, self).save(commit=False, *args, **kwargs)
        if m.user is None and request is not None:
            m.user= request.user
            m.save()

in views:

def post(self, request):
   if form.is_valid():  
      form.save(request=request)
      return ...