Django and Middleware which uses request.user is always Anonymous

Question

I\'m trying to make middleware which alters some fields for the user based on subdomain, etc...

The only problem is the request.user always comes in as AnonymousUser wit

Answer 1

I know it's not exactly answering the 'can we access that from the middleware' question, but I think it's a more elegant solution VS doing the same work in the middleware VS what DRJ does in its base view class. At least for what I needed, it made more sense to add here.

Basically, I'm just overriding the method 'perform_authentication()' from DRF's code, since I needed to add more things related to the current user in the request. The method just originally call 'request.user'.

class MyGenericViewset(viewsets.GenericViewSet):

    def perform_authentication(self, request):
        request.user

        if request.user and request.user.is_authenticated():
            request.my_param1 = 'whatever'

After that in your own views, instead of settings APIView from DRF as a parent class, simply set that class as a parent.