How to use context field?

[elizavetabyn]

Hi, can you please describe how to use context field in my project? Can't understand how to add data into it

[hugorodgerbrown]

Hi @atanassia - if you want to add data to it you should add a function to your Django settings called
USER_VISIT_REQUEST_CONTEXT_EXTRACTOR that takes HttpRequest as the only arg, and that returns a dict, which is stored in the context field.

e.g. this would store whether the user was a staff user:

# settings.py

USER_VISIT_REQUEST_CONTEXT_EXTRACTOR = lambda r: { "is_staff": r.user.is_staff }

If you want to do something more complicated that you can't achieve in a lambda, you can define the function and then just assign it to the setting:

# settings.py

def really_complicated_function(request: HttpRequest) -> dict:
    ...
    return { ... }


USER_VISIT_REQUEST_CONTEXT_EXTRACTOR = really_complicated_function

[elizavetabyn]

thank you