Quickstart

Install django-currentuser:

pip install django-currentuser

Note: if there is a new Django version released that the library hasn’t been upgraded to support yet, e.g.:

The conflict is caused by:

The user requested django==5.1 django-currentuser 0.8.0 depends on Django<5.1 and >=4.2

you can try to install it with the unsupported/untested Django version by using the DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO environment variable

DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO=1 pip install django-currentuser

Ade it to the middleware classes in your settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE = (
    ...,
    'django_currentuser.middleware.ThreadLocalUserMiddleware',
)

Then use it in a project:

from django_currentuser.middleware import (
    get_current_user, get_current_authenticated_user)

# As model field:
from django_currentuser.db.models import CurrentUserField
class Foo(models.Model):
    created_by = CurrentUserField()
    updated_by = CurrentUserField(on_update=True)

Differences to django-cuser

Both libraries serve the same purpose, but be aware of these differences (as of django-cuser v.2017.3.16):

• django-currentuser’s CurrentUserField stores the reference to the request user at initialization of the model instance and still allows you to overwrite the value before saving. django-cuser sets the value in the pre_save handler of the field just before writing it to the database. Intermediate changes will be ignored.

• django-cuser deletes the user reference from the thread after finishing a response and it will therefore no longer be available for testing purposes.

Supported Versions

• for django-currentuser`, fixes are always made against the latest version

• for Python, support is guided by https://devguide.python.org/versions/#supported-versions

• for Django, support is guided by https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django and https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions (assuming the Python version listed there is supported)

Note on [semver](https://semver.org/): While the fact that Django support stopped for version X, doesn’t have to mean it’s a breaking change for this lib, as it would be just a backward-compatible metadata patch, no code change. However, at some point support needs to be dropped - so for simplicity, the project follows what Django supports. If someone needs to use different, unsupported version, DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO allows for it.

Release Notes

• 0.10.0

  • by @adiorz

  • add support for Python 3.14

  • add support for Django 6.0

  • drop support for Python 3.9

  • drop support for Django 5.1

• 0.9.0

  • by @bartvanandel

  • add support for Python 3.13

  • add support for Django 5.2

  • drop support for Python 3.8

  • drop support for Django 5.0

• 0.8.0

  • add support for Django 5.1

  • drop support for Django 3.2

  • introduce DJANGO_CURRENTUSER_USE_UNSUPPORTED_DJANGO environment variable to make upgrades easier

• 0.7.0

  • add support for Django 5.0

  • add support for Python 3.12

  • drop support for Django 4.0 and 4.1

• 0.6.1

  • remove project transfer warning from README in order not to scare people away from the project

• 0.6.0

  • add support for Django 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2

  • add support for Python 3.11

  • drop support for Python 3.6 and 3.7

• 0.5.3 - add support for Django 3.2 and Python 3.9

• 0.5.2 - Fixed Django deprecation warning about using ugettext_lazy()

• 0.5.1 - add support for Django 3.1 and Python 3.8

• 0.5.0 - add support for update on save (thank you @felubra) - no longer build on Python 3.5, deprecated

• 0.4.3 - add support for Django 3.0

• 0.4.2 - Minor fix for supported Django and Python versions

• 0.4.0 - update supported versions

  • drop support for Python 3.4

  • drop support for Django 2.0

  • add support for Python 3.7

  • add support for Django 2.2

  • update tox3travis.py to not loose deployment feature

• 0.3.4 - Use public Travis for packaging to remove dependency on outdated build system

• 0.3.3 - drop Python 3.7 support due to build process problems

• 0.3.1 - attempt to add Python 3.7 support

• 0.3.0 - update supported versions according to https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions and https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

  • drop support for Python 3.2

• 0.2.3 - support custom user model, drop Django 1.10 support

• 0.2.2 - support Django 2.0

• 0.2.1 - version fixes #9

  • support Django 1.11.x and not just 1.11.0

• 0.2.0 - New middleclass format

  • Adapt to new object based middle class format of Django 1.10+

  • Drop support for deprecated Django versions 1.8 and 1.9

• 0.1.1 - minor release

  • suppress warning for passed kwargs as long as they match the defaults (avoids them being printed during running tests when fields are cloned)

• 0.1.0 - initial release

  • provides middleware + methods to set + retrieve reference of currently logged in user from thread

  • provides CurrentUserField that by default stores the currently logged in user

  • supports Django 1.10, 1.11 on python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 - as per the official django docs

Contributing

As an open source project, we welcome contributions.

The code lives on github.

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
for version in 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14; do
  py=python$version
  if ! which ${py}; then
    sudo apt-get -y install ${py} ${py}-dev
  fi
done
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update