Django: 'User' object has no attribute 'user'

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My website has a system of alerts. When a certain action occurs the system loggs an alert in the following model: ``` class Alert(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=60) read = models.BooleanField #if this is a new alert of not for_user = models.ForeignKey(User) #which user will see it link = models.CharField(max_length=100) ``` Many functions need to check the number of alerts a user has (Mostly to display the number of new alerts next to the alerts tab of the site). Because of that, I created this function: ``` @login_required() def get_alertnum(user): alert_objects = Alert.objects.filter(read = False, for_user=user) num = 0 for n in alert_objects: num += 1 return num ``` Which is accessed by this function: ``` @login_required() def posting_draft(request): user = request.user user_drafts = Draft.objects.filter(user = user) drafts = dict() for d in user_drafts: drafts[d.title] = d.id alertnum = get_alertnum(user) return render_to_response('posting_draft.html', {'STATIC…

Accepted Answer

You need to remove @login_required() decorator from the get_alertnum() function. The decorator assumes the first argument is a request object and is trying to access the user attribute.

Also you could simplify and speed up the function by:

```
def get_alertnum(user):
    return Alert.objects.filter(read=False, for_user=user).count()
```

Below is an explanation of the count method.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#count

Django: 'User' object has no attribute 'user'

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