Django, request.user is always Anonymous User

Question

I am using a custom authentication backend for Django (which runs off couchdb). I have a custom user model.

As part of the login, I am doing a request.user = u

Answer 1

After sending Token using Authorization header, the token will be gotten in dispatch function as bellow: '''

def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

    self.args = args
    self.kwargs = kwargs
    request = self.initialize_request(request, *args, **kwargs)
    self.request = request
    self.headers = self.default_response_headers  # deprecate?

    try:
        self.initial(request, *args, **kwargs)

        # Get the appropriate handler method
        if request.method.lower() in self.http_method_names:
            handler = getattr(self, request.method.lower(),
                              self.http_method_not_allowed)
        else:
            handler = self.http_method_not_allowed

        response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)

    except Exception as exc:
        response = self.handle_exception(exc)

    self.response = self.finalize_response(request, response, *args, **kwargs)
    return self.response

So you are using django_role_permission's HasRoleMixin, the dispatch method of this mixin will hide dispatch of the view. I think that the solution is to redefine the mixin of roles-permissions