Pass request.user to view without altering the url

Question

I\'m trying to write a view where the current logged in user\'s information is retrieved.

My view is written as below, and it works perfectly fine as long as I pass the

Answer 1

You need the login_required decorator.

@login_required
def index(request, template="index.html"):
    user = request.user # get the currently logged in user

If the user is logged in he/she can access the activity feed otherwise they will be redirected to login page. This will make sure that only authenticated user can access this view. And you can always access the current user using request.user.