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

Added these in my view

from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework.authentication import TokenAuthentication

authentication_classes = (TokenAuthentication,)
permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)

and started getting original user