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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-07-04 09:32:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-07-04 09:32:32 -0400 |
| commit | f407f75aae242d1bd8d4ac7f19c5d4075353c65e (patch) | |
| tree | 05cc7ea1a46975e7de8aa21c142b44781774f811 /docs | |
| parent | 428de2e3394873810645010020d65841ab72bb14 (diff) | |
Fixed #20673 -- Clarified that HttpRequest.user uses AUTH_USER_MODEL.
Thanks littlepig for the report.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/request-response.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt index f1c5702d36..060ec02e91 100644 --- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt +++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt @@ -165,10 +165,11 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below. .. attribute:: HttpRequest.user - A ``django.contrib.auth.models.User`` object representing the currently + An object of type :setting:`AUTH_USER_MODEL` representing the currently logged-in user. If the user isn't currently logged in, ``user`` will be set - to an instance of ``django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser``. You - can tell them apart with ``is_authenticated()``, like so:: + to an instance of :class:`django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser`. You + can tell them apart with + :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_authenticated`, like so:: if request.user.is_authenticated(): # Do something for logged-in users. @@ -176,8 +177,8 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below. # Do something for anonymous users. ``user`` is only available if your Django installation has the - ``AuthenticationMiddleware`` activated. For more, see - :doc:`/topics/auth/index`. + :class:`~django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware` + activated. For more, see :doc:`/topics/auth/index`. .. attribute:: HttpRequest.session |