I am trying to show a public user profile when someone goes to something like http://localhost:8000/@john - It seems user = get_object_or_404(User, username=username) is authenticating a user ? # http://localhost:8000/@john def PublicProfile(request, username): user = get_object_or_404(User, u…

Nothing is actually being authenticated. See the docs for is_authenticated to understand what’s happening.

How do I get a user object based on username that is not loggedin ? It seems like all the examples are based on an already logged-in user. I just want to display a public profile page based on a username. Or I want to set is_authenticated to False in the my views.py for def PublicProfile(request,…

I don’t understand what you’re asking for here. If you want the profile, access the profile. I’m not seeing where the is_authenticated function has anything to do with accessing a profile.

How else do I get a user details (like full name etc) from a given username string ? This does not require anyone to login to the system. No authentication.

Query the User table using username as the filter.

Isn’t that user = get_object_or_404(User, username=username) ? The only other alternative I could find is this : User = get_user_model() user = User.objects.filter(username=username) print(user[0]) But even user[0].is_authenticated is True which I don’t want.

User. is_authenticated has nothing to do with if the user is logged in or not. Is that what you’re actually after finding?

Did you read the docs on what is_authenticated actually does?

Yes, given a username, I should be able to get the user details like first name and last name. But I don’t want the property is_authenticated to be True.

This sound a lot like an X-Y Problem . By definition, is_authenticated is True for all entries in the User table. Why do you want it to be otherwise? What are you actually trying to accomplish by this? (It sounds to me like you’re assuming is_authenticated has a different meaning than what it has, …

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KenWhitesell April 11, 2022, 12:25pm 15

That’s probably best anyway, to prevent conflict with the context middleware.

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