How to Save Currently Logged in User to Model in Django - django-users

Question

I am trying to get the currently logged in User and save it to a model. I am getting the following error
"Cannot assign "<SimpleLazyObject: <User: rsomani005>>": "process_master.user" must be a "User" instance"
I am using Django's built in user model.
My model looks like this -
class User(auth.models.User,auth.models.PermissionsMixin):
def __str__(self):
return "#{}".format(self.username)
class plan_master(models.Model):
plan_name = models.CharField(max_length=256)
plan_description = models.CharField(max_length=256)
plan_price = models.FloatField()
plan_active_status = models.BooleanField(default=True)
plan_credits = models.IntegerField(default=0)
registration_type_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
My view file looks like this -
class FileFieldView(LoginRequiredMixin,FormView):
form_class = FileFieldForm
template_name = 'merge_ops/merge_ops.html'
success_url = reverse_lazy('merge_ops:file_setup')
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form_class = self.get_form_class()
form = self.get_form(form_class)
files = request.FILES.getlist('file_field')
if form.is_valid():
for f in files:
fs = FileSystemStorage()
fs.save(f.name,f)
obj = process_master()
user = request.user
obj.user = user
obj.process_date = datetime.now()
obj.number_of_workbooks = len(files)
obj.save()
return self.form_valid(form)
else:
return self.form_invalid(form)

Answer 1

An easy way to get the logged user in one of your views is:
user = request.user
but that is usually when the user model that you have created is something like that in the model.py:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
class User(AbstractUser):
pass
I would suggest using this one to register users because it is automatic and complete.
and from there use the object for what you need. You can pass it on as a context or
source model objects from it.