Django storing anonymous user data

Question

I have a django model which stores user and product data from a form input:

def ProductSelection(request, template_name=\'product_selection.html\'):
    ...
         


        

Answer 1

You can use Django's session framework to store anonymous user data.

You can then either add a field to your Project model to hold the session_key value for anonymous users,

project = Project.objects.create(
    user=request.user,  # can be anonymous user
    session=request.session.session_key,
    product=form.cleaned_data["product"],
    quantity=form.cleaned_data["product_quantity"])

or simply store all the data a Project instance would have in the session

if user.is_authenticated():
    project = Project.objects.create(
        user=request.user,
        product=form.cleaned_data["product"],
        quantity=form.cleaned_data["product_quantity"])
else:
    # deal with anonymous user info
    request.session['project'] = {
        "product": form.cleaned_data["product"],
        "quantity": form.cleaned_Data["product_quantity"]}

You can retrieve the data from the session later, when creating a proper user.