Django, how to get a user by id, using the django.contrib.auth.models.User

Question

I cant'figure it out how to get a User, from the django model, django.contrib.auth.models.User, by id... I want to delete a user so I'm trying to find it like that:

 User.objects.get(id=request.POST['id'])

But it doesn work, and returns

User matching query does not exist.

the id is sent by ajax:

 $("#dynamic-table").on('click','.member_delete_btn', function() {
        if (confirm("Are you sure? the member will be deleted...") == true) {
            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "/panel/member/delete/",
                data: { id: $(this).attr('data-id'), 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': '{{ csrf_token }}' },
                success: function (data) {
                     if(data.success) {
                         $('#result').html('<div class="alert alert-success"> <strong>Well done!</strong> Member deleted.</div>');
                         list_members();
                     }else{
                         $('#result').html('<div class="alert alert-warning"> <strong>Warning!</strong> Member not deleted.</div>');
                     }
                },
                error: function (data) {
                    alert("failure:" + data.error);
                }
            });
        }
        else {
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    });

I debug it and it's ok, the user exists in the DB and the id is correct

How do I do that? Is there any delete method for django User instances?

thanks

Answer 1

That is the way to do it, the problem here, is that your requested user does not exist. If you want to handle this case, use this:

try:
   user_id = int(request.POST['id'])
   user = User.objects.get(id=user_id)
except  User.DoesNotExist:
   //handle the case when the user does not exist. 

Also, you need transform your id to Int.