Django - How to add sender-name in Email? - django

Question

What I am trying to achieve is having the senders-name, from the current logged in user with the association name, to show up in the receivers inbox like so:
'associaton-name'#domain.com
I have commented it down below where i tried to achieve it in views.py
Can't seem to find any related solutions after days and hours of work.
Really appreciate your help, folks!
Django: 1.10
Python: 3.6
views.py
class mailPost(FormView):
success_url = '.'
form_class = mailHandler
template_name = 'post/post.html'
def form_valid(self, form):
messages.add_message(self.request, messages.SUCCESS, 'Email Sent!')
return super(mailPost, self).form_valid(form)
def form_invalid(self, form):
messages.add_message(self.request, messages.WARNING,
'Email not sent. Please try again.')
return super(mailPost, self).form_invalid(form)
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form_class = self.get_form_class()
form = self.get_form(form_class)
if form.is_valid():
sender = "noreply#domain.com" # Instead of noreply I wish for current requested associaton name
receiver = form.cleaned_data.get('receiver')
cc = form.cleaned_data.get('cc')
bcc = form.cleaned_data.get('bcc')
subject = form.cleaned_data.get('subject')
message = form.cleaned_data.get('message')
time = datetime.now()
asoc_pk = Association.objects.filter(asoc_name=self.request.user.association)
asoc = Association.objects.get(id=asoc_pk)
Email.objects.create(
sender=sender,
receiver=receiver,
cc=cc,
bcc=bcc,
subject=subject,
message=message,
association=asoc,
sentTime=time
)
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, message, sender, [receiver], bcc=[bcc], cc=[cc])
msg.send()
return self.form_valid(form)
else:
return self.form_invalid(form)
models.py
class Email(models.Model):
sender = models.CharField(max_length=254)
sentTime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, blank=False)
subject = models.CharField(max_length=254)
receiver = models.CharField(max_length=254)
cc = models.CharField(max_length=254)
bcc = models.CharField(max_length=254)
message = models.TextField()
association = models.ForeignKey(Association)
class Meta:
db_table = 'Email'
class Association(models.Model):
asoc_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True, blank=True, unique=True)
class Meta:
db_table = 'Association'
class Administrator(AbstractUser):
...
association = models.ForeignKey(Association)
class Meta:
db_table = 'Administrator'

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand your question correctly. You can access the authenticated user (given you are using the Django Authentication system) by calling self.request.user.
You have to create a relation between Association and the user:
class Association(models.Model):
asoc_name = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True, blank=True, unique=True)
# Option 1 - if one user can be a member of several associations
members = models.ManyToMany(User)
class Meta:
db_table = 'Association'
or a new model instance if a user can only be a member of one association:
# Option 2
class Membership(Model):
association = models.ForeignKey(Association)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
You get the Association using a direct lookup (or a reverse relation).
# option 1
if form.is_valid():
sender = Association.objects.filter(members=self.request.user).first()
# sender might be None
# option 2
if form.is_valid():
membership = Membership.objects.filter(user=self.request.user).first()
if membership:
sender = membership.association
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/db/examples/many_to_many/