Django — middleware authentication

In this article, we shall see how to authenticate the users in the middleware. In my Django project, I wanted to authenticate the users in the middleware instead of authenticating them in the views functions. If you are using Django Rest Framework the authentication automatically happens in the middleware. But, if we are not using the DRF or want to authenticate manually in the middleware you can make use of this article.

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In order to add a middleware function, we have to create a function somewhere in our project and add the name of the middleware class to the settings.py file under the MIDDLEWARE list.

I have a student app like this in my Django project.

app structure

I have added a new file called middleware.py. I will be creating a class that will check if the user is authenticated here.

The middleware

In Django middleware, there is a method called process_view(). Theprocess_view() method is called just before Django calls the…