How to access the request.user in a Piston classmethod

Question

I have a model which contains a ManyToMany to User to keep track of which users have \'favorited\' a particular model instance.

In my API for this model, when reques

Answer 1

I am not aware of the piston API, but how about using the thread locals middleware to access the request

add this to middleware

try:                                                                    
    from threading import local                                         
except ImportError:                                                     
    from django.utils._threading_local import local                     

_thread_locals = local()                                                
def get_request():                                                
    return getattr(_thread_locals, 'request', None)                       

class ThreadLocals(object):                                             
    def process_request(self, request):                                 
        _thread_locals.request = request

and update the settings with the ThreadLocals middleware

and wherever you want to access the request import get_request from middleware

if you want to just get the current user, modify the middleware to set only request.user in thread locals