Django - how to get user logged in (get_queryset in ListView)

Question

models.py:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Location(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

views.py

class UserLocationsListView(ListView):
    model = Location
    context_object_name = 'user_locations'

    def get_queryset(self):
        user_locations = Location.objects.filter(user=self.request.user)
        paginator = Paginator(user_locations, 10)
        page = self.request.GET.get('page')
        try:
            user_locations = paginator.page(page)
        except PageNotAnInteger:
            user_locations = paginator.page(1)
        except EmptyPage:
            user_locations = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
        return user_locations

urls.py:

url(r'^member/user_locations/$', UserLocationsListView.as_view(), name='user_locations'),

I want the user to be able to see all of his locations at the page.

It seems I have problems with REQUEST (while filtering and in page definition)

How should I fix this?

Thanks!

Environment:


Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/member/user_locations/

Django Version: 1.8.6
Python Version: 2.7.11
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'allauth',
 'allauth.account',
 'allauth.socialaccount',
 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.facebook',
 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.instagram',
 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.twitter',
 'crispy_forms',
 'findlocation_app')
Installed Middleware:
('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware')


Traceback:
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response
  164.                 response = response.render()
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in render
  158.             self.content = self.rendered_content
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in rendered_content
  133.         template = self._resolve_template(self.template_name)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in _resolve_template
  88.         new_template = self.resolve_template(template)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in resolve_template
  78.             return loader.select_template(template, using=self.using)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py" in select_template
  64.                     return engine.get_template(template_name, dirs)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\backends\django.py" in get_template
  30.         return Template(self.engine.get_template(template_name, dirs))
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\engine.py" in get_template
  167.         template, origin = self.find_template(template_name, dirs)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\engine.py" in find_template
  141.                 source, display_name = loader(name, dirs)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\loaders\base.py" in __call__
  13.         return self.load_template(template_name, template_dirs)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\loaders\base.py" in load_template
  17.             template_name, template_dirs)
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\site-packages\django\template\loaders\filesystem.py" in load_template_source
  38.                     return fp.read(), filepath
File "C:\commercial_projects\fl\lib\codecs.py" in decode
  314.         (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)

Exception Type: UnicodeDecodeError at /member/user_locations/
Exception Value: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 748: invalid continuation byte

Answer 1

Your question is completely unrelated to the traceback. The traceback shows that you have an invalid character (in position 748) in the template used by your view. Remove it.

The view itself looks ok. The correct way to get the user in the method is self.request.user, as you are already doing.

You could simplify the method slightly - you don't need to do the pagination in the method, the ListView will take care of that for you.

class UserLocationsListView(ListView):
    ...
    paginate_by = 10

    def get_queryset(self):
        queryset = super(UserLocationsListView, self).get_queryset()
        queryset = queryset.filter(user=self.request.user)
        return queryset