Django Get Current User Example

Hi Dev,

In this tutorial, I will show you django get current user example. This tutorial will give you simple example of django views get current user. I would like to show you django get current user middleware. step by step explain django get current user in view.

In this tuts, First of all we can check you have SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware middlewares added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

let's see below simple example with output:

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):

    current_user = request.user
    print(current_user.id)

    return HttpResponse('')

So, request.user will give you a User object representing the currently logged-in user. If a user isn't currently logged in, request.user will be set to an instance of AnonymousUser. You can tell them apart with the field is_authenticated, like so:

if request.user.is_authenticated:
    # Do something for authenticated users.
else:
    # Do something for anonymous users.

I Hope It will help you....