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diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt index a93201fb09..c705abcb6b 100644 --- a/docs/topics/auth/default.txt +++ b/docs/topics/auth/default.txt @@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ Django uses :doc:`sessions </topics/http/sessions>` and middleware to hook the authentication system into :class:`request objects <django.http.HttpRequest>`. These provide a :attr:`request.user <django.http.HttpRequest.user>` attribute +and a :meth:`request.auser <django.http.HttpRequest.auser>` async method on every request which represents the current user. If the current user has not logged in, this attribute will be set to an instance of :class:`~django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser`, otherwise it will be an @@ -383,6 +384,20 @@ You can tell them apart with # Do something for anonymous users. ... +Or in an asynchronous view:: + + user = await request.auser() + if user.is_authenticated: + # Do something for authenticated users. + ... + else: + # Do something for anonymous users. + ... + +.. versionchanged:: 5.0 + + The :meth:`.HttpRequest.auser` method was added. + .. _how-to-log-a-user-in: How to log a user in |