django - logging edit event - need to get id of logged in user - django

Question

I've a product-stock model as given below.
TRANSACTION_TYPE=(('I','Stock In'),('O','Stock Out'))
class Stock(models.Model):
product=models.ForeignKey('product.Product', blank=False,null=False)
date=models.DateField(blank=False, null=False,)
quantity=models.PositiveIntegerField(blank=False, null=False)
ttype=models.CharField(max_length=1,verbose_name="Transaction type",choices=TRANSACTION_TYPE, blank=False, db_index=True)
I need to log the update activity on this model, along with the id of the user who updated it.
ACTIONS=(('EC','Edit Category'),
('EG','Edit Group'),
('EP','Edit Product'),
('ES','Edit Stock'))
class MyLog(models.Model):
user=models.ForeignKey(auth.models.User, blank=False)
action= models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=ACTIONS, null=False,blank=False)
date=models.DateTimeField(blank=False, auto_now=True)
data = JSONField()
I've the added following code to the Stock model.
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(Stock, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
if self.pk != None :
self.__important_fields = ['product','date', 'quantity', 'ttype', ]
for field in self.__important_fields:
setattr(self, '__original_%s' % field, getattr(self, field))
field_name='__original_%s' % field
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
if self.pk != None :
print("Editing")
flag=False
log=MyLog(user=?,action='ES')
log.data=[]
for field in self.__important_fields:
original=getattr(self, '__original_%s' % field)
if original != getattr(self, field):
flag=True
log.data.append({field : str(original)})
if flag:
log.save()
else:
print("Adding")
super(Stock, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
This works, when I hard code a user object into the line log=MyLog(user=?,action='ES').
I need to log the id of the user who performed this edit operation.
How can I achieve this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here's how I finally achieved my goal.
Instead of logging the event from the model, I switched my code to the forms.
Here's my final code.
mylog app model
ACTIONS=(('EC','Edit Category'),
('EG','Edit Group'),
('EP','Edit Product'),
('ES','Edit Stock'))
class MyLog(models.Model):
user=models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, blank=False)
model_id=models.IntegerField(default=0)
action= models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=ACTIONS, null=False,blank=False)
date=models.DateTimeField(blank=False, auto_now=True)
old_data = JSONField(default=None)
new_data = JSONField(default=None)
stock app - update view
class UpdateStock(UpdateView):
model=Stock
form_class=UpdateStockForm
def get_form_kwargs(self):
kwargs = super( UpdateStock, self).get_form_kwargs()
kwargs.update({'user_id': self.request.user.id})
return kwargs
stock app - update form
class UpdateStockForm(forms.ModelForm):
def __init__(self,pk= None, *args, **kwargs):
self.user_id=kwargs.pop('user_id')
super(UpdateStockForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
def clean(self):
cleaned_data = super(UpdateStockForm, self).clean()
quantity = cleaned_data.get('quantity')
date= cleaned_data.get('date')
priv_quantity=self.instance.quantity
priv_date=self.instance.date
if priv_quantity!=quantity or priv_date != date:
#log!
log=MyLog(user=auth.models.User.objects.get(pk=self.user_id),action='ES', model_id=self.instance.id)
log.old_data=[]
log.old_data.append({'date' : str(priv_date), 'quantity':priv_quantity })
log.new_data=[]
log.new_data.append({ 'date' : str(date), 'quantity':quantity })
log.save()
return cleaned_data