How to access the request.user in a Piston classmethod

Question

I have a model which contains a ManyToMany to User to keep track of which users have \'favorited\' a particular model instance.

In my API for this model, when reques

Answer 1

From the piston wiki page it says that you may specify the contents of foreign keys and many to many fields by nesting attributes. In your case

class FriendHandler(BaseHandler):
    allowed_methods = ('GET',)
    model = User
    fields = ('userfield_1', 'userfield_2', ('friends', ('is_friended')))

    def read(self, request):
        # Anything else you might want to do, but return an object of type User
        # Or whatever your model happens to be called

EDIT: Another slightly hacky way to do it (if you don't want the friend to get passed at all if the is_friended is false) would be to manually create a dict object structured how you like, and then return it. piston processes the dict a works with the built in emitters (the JSON one for sure, haven't tried the others)

Answer 2

I am not aware of the piston API, but how about using the thread locals middleware to access the request

add this to middleware

try:                                                                    
    from threading import local                                         
except ImportError:                                                     
    from django.utils._threading_local import local                     

_thread_locals = local()                                                
def get_request():                                                
    return getattr(_thread_locals, 'request', None)                       

class ThreadLocals(object):                                             
    def process_request(self, request):                                 
        _thread_locals.request = request

and update the settings with the ThreadLocals middleware

and wherever you want to access the request import get_request from middleware

if you want to just get the current user, modify the middleware to set only request.user in thread locals