I have a following question regarding Django authentication middleware:

class AuthenticationMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
    def process_request(self, request):
        assert hasattr(request, 'session'), (
            "The Django authentication middleware requires session middleware "
            "to be installed. Edit your MIDDLEWARE setting to insert "
            "'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware' before "
            "'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware'."
        )
        request.user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_user(request))

As you can see here middleware calls method get_user from backend (in my case simple_jwt) and puts this method in a SimpleLazyObject in order to evaluate later.

def get_user(self, validated_token):
    """
    Attempts to find and return a user using the given validated token.
    """
    try:
        user_id = validated_token[api_settings.USER_ID_CLAIM]
    except KeyError:
        raise InvalidToken(_('Token contained no recognizable user identification'))

    try:
        user = User.objects.get(**{api_settings.USER_ID_FIELD: user_id})
    except User.DoesNotExist:
        raise AuthenticationFailed(_('User not found'), code='user_not_found')

    if not user.is_active:
        raise AuthenticationFailed(_('User is inactive'), code='user_inactive')

    return user

What I want to do is to keep request.user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_user(request)) in order to provide user instance for apps that uses it but for my custom apps I want to add something like

pseudocode

request.user_id = user_id from  user (user_id = validated_token[api_settings.USER_ID_CLAIM])

in order to not query database each and every request for user object in case I need only user_id which I already have directly in get_user method in backend.

Question – how to pass user_id from get_user() to AuthenticationMiddleware.process_request() and set request.user_id attribute to request without evaluating SimpleLazyObject?

Strangelly i can't assign attributes to request in class JWTAuthentication(authentication.BaseAuthentication): where get_user() is belong

Thank you.

Internal Server Error: /auth/users/me/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py", line 330, in thread_handler
    raise exc_info[1]
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 38, in inner
    response = await get_response(request)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\django\utils\deprecation.py", line 126, in __acall__
    response = await sync_to_async(
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py", line 296, in __call__
    ret = await asyncio.wait_for(future, timeout=None)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\asyncio\tasks.py", line 440, in wait_for
    return await fut
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\asgiref\current_thread_executor.py", line 23, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py", line 334, in thread_handler
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\middleware.py", line 26, in process_request
    request.user_id = _get_user_session_key(request)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\__init__.py", line 58, in _get_user_session_key
    return get_user_model()._meta.pk.to_python(request.session[SESSION_KEY])
  File "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\envs\entropy\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\sessions\backends\base.py", line 65, in __getitem__
    return self._session[key]
KeyError: '_auth_user_id'

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Link to original article：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64588820/add-user-id-attribute-in-authenticationmiddleware-django