Cannot assign django.utils.functional.SimpleLazyObject, must be user instance
django, django-forms, django-views, python
Solution
The import statement should be:
from django.contrib.auth import get_user
And the actual call to `get_user()`:
new_contact.user = get_user(request)
FYI, quote from `django.contrib.auth` source:
def get_user(request):
"""
Returns the user model instance associated with the given request session.
If no user is retrieved an instance of `AnonymousUser` is returned.
"""
...
Hope that helps.
Problem
What's the right way to assign a User object from django.contrib.auth.models in a view to a model object with a foreign key reference to User? Example new_contact in: ``` def index(request): form = SignupForm(request.POST or None) if form.is_valid(): new_contact = form.save(commit=False) new_contact.user = request.user new_contact.save() # send_mail ... return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('app:template')) else: return render_to_response('index.html', {'form': form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) ``` "new_contact.user = request.user" throws error ValueError at / Cannot assign "": "Contact.user" must be a "User" instance because request.user is an object wrapper, not the actual User (which doesn't exist yet). But if I set new_contact.user = auth.get_user(request) [based on answer here: valueError in modelforms ], it returns NameError 'auth' even though I'm importing django.contrib.auth into my view. What's the right way to do this? thanks My modelform is: ``` from django import forms from .models import Contact class SignupForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = Contact fields = ['name','email','company'] ```