You can use Django’s session framework to store anonymous user data.
You can then either add a field to your Project
model to hold the session_key
value for anonymous users,
project = Project.objects.create(
user=request.user, # can be anonymous user
session=request.session.session_key,
product=form.cleaned_data["product"],
quantity=form.cleaned_data["product_quantity"])
or simply store all the data a Project instance would have in the session
if user.is_authenticated():
project = Project.objects.create(
user=request.user,
product=form.cleaned_data["product"],
quantity=form.cleaned_data["product_quantity"])
else:
# deal with anonymous user info
request.session['project'] = {
"product": form.cleaned_data["product"],
"quantity": form.cleaned_Data["product_quantity"]}
You can retrieve the data from the session later, when creating a proper user.