Django 1.4 - {{ request.user.username}} doesn't render in template

django, django-templates

Solution

As mentioned in the documentation, authenticated user's object is stored within `user` variable in templates. Mentioned documentation includes the following example:

When rendering a template `RequestContext`, the currently logged-in user, either a `User` instance or an `AnonymousUser` instance, is stored in the template variable `{{ user }}`:

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    <p>Welcome, {{ user.get_username }}. Thanks for logging in.</p>
{% else %}
    <p>Welcome, new user. Please log in.</p>
{% endif %}

EDIT: Thanks to @buffer, who dug out this old answer, I have updated it with most recent state. When it was originally written, in less than a month after Django 1.4 (which was released at the end of March 2012), it was correct. But since Django 1.5, proper method to get username is to call `get_username()` on user model instance. This has been added due to ability to swap `User` class (and have custom field as username).

Problem

In my view, I can print request.user.username, however in the template, {{request.user.username}} does not appear. To make this easy, I removed the logic from the function, and I am importing render_to_response & RequestContext. ``` from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from django.template import RequestContext @login_required @csrf_protect def form(request): print request.user.username data = {} return render_to_response('form.html', data, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) ``` My guess is that I have problem with my settings.py. ``` MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection: # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'src', ) ``` Thanks in advance for your help-

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