Access request.session from backend.get_user

Question

first of all: this is not the same as this. The ModelBackend has no request member.

I want to access the session of the current user without ac

Answer 1

You can also pass a 'request' parameter to the authenticate function any time you call it:

def authenticate(self, request, **kwargs):
    ....

Answer 2

You can use the tiny ThreadLocalMiddleware. It makes the request object everywhere available.

from django_tools.middlewares import ThreadLocal

request = ThreadLocal.get_current_request()
# request.session <-- is now available

Do not forget to add the middleware into the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES tuple of your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'django_tools.middlewares.ThreadLocal.ThreadLocalMiddleware',
    ...
)

Answer 3

The RemoteUserBackend (from django.contrib.auth.backends) uses special middleware, RemoteUserMiddleware, to access request data. Maybe you could do it this way, too.