django make request user to api authenticated user

Question

I am trying to make a application in django. I have an authentication api from another application. I take input from user via form and post the input to the api in json. After I get success message from api and my user is authenticated to api I want to make that user as request.user in django.

Is there any way I can do it. I am thinking of doing it in middleware in process_view . Is this right approach ? But I have no idea how to do it.

Any suggestion will be appriciated.

Answer 1

If you are really doing it thru Django views, you can manually login the user with:

# imports needed
from django.contrib.auth import login, logout
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# hard way to login a user
user = User.objects.filter(username=INPUT_USERNAME).first()
user.backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
login(request, user)

If you need to logout:

logout(request)