Question

I am just using the admin site in Django. I have 2 Django signals (pre_save and post_save). I would like to have the username of the current user. How would I do that? It does not seem I can send a request Or I did not understand it.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are using the admin site why not use a custom model admin

class MyModelAdmin( admin.ModelAdmin ):
    def save_model( self, request, obj, form, change ):
        #pre save stuff here
        obj.save()
        #post save stuff here



admin.site.register( MyModel, MyModelAdmin )

A signal is something that is fired every time the object is saved regardless of if it is being done by the admin or some process that isn’t tied to a request and isn’t really an appropriate place to be doing request based actions