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Get Session Data in Django Forms

Given a Django form, I have the following save() method:

def save(self):
    name = self.cleaned_data.get('name', None)

    user = User.objects.get(1) #I want the session user ID from here

So to do so I imported as so:

from django.http import HttpRequest as request

and in the above code I wrote

request.session.get('user_id') #for example

However, when run, Django throws the following error:

AttributeError: type object 'HttpRequest' has no attribute 'session'

Is there a better way to do this retrieval?

Solution

  • You can't just import the HttpRequest class and expect it to have the values from the current request. You need to actually pass in that current request from the view.