Django: How to get current user in admin forms?
Here is what i did recently for a Blog:
class BlogPostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = BlogPostForm
def get_form(self, request, **kwargs):
form = super(BlogPostAdmin, self).get_form(request, **kwargs)
form.current_user = request.user
return form
I can now access the current user in my forms.ModelForm
by accessing self.current_user
EDIT: This is an old answer, and looking at it recently I realized the get_form
method should be amended to be:
def get_form(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form = super(BlogPostAdmin, self).get_form(request, *args, **kwargs)
form.current_user = request.user
return form
(Note the addition of *args
)
Joshmaker's answer doesn't work for me on Django 1.7. Here is what I had to do for Django 1.7:
class BlogPostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = BlogPostForm
def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
form = super(BlogPostAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)
form.current_user = request.user
return form
For more details on this method, please see this relevant Django documentation
This use case is documented at ModelAdmin.get_form
[...] if you wanted to offer additional fields to superusers, you could swap in a different base form like so:
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
if request.user.is_superuser:
kwargs['form'] = MySuperuserForm
return super().get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)
If you just need to save a field, then you could just override ModelAdmin.save_model
from django.contrib import admin
class ArticleAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
obj.user = request.user
super().save_model(request, obj, form, change)