User object not recorded

[steverecio]

I noticed that the User object was not being recorded for request events. Is anyone else running into this? Previously it seemed to be isolated to requests using token authentication (knox-rest-auth) now I'm seeing it for django-allauth authentication schemes as well (running v1.3.3)

[steverecio]

Looks to be related to this bit of code: https://github.com/soynatan/django-easy-audit/blob/master/easyaudit/signals/request_signals.py#L61

What is the rationale for getting the user from the session cookie instead of request.user?

[mschoettle]

What is the rationale for getting the user from the session cookie instead of request.user?

I think it's because the request is unavailable in the signal handling. See #225.

I agree that easy audit should use request.user instead of re-parsing the cookie. Django already handles this (in one of the middlewares I believe). There is also a related discussion in #165.