Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Python Build a Social Network with Flask How to Win Friends Handling 404s

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

AttributeError: 'AnonymousUserMixin' object has no attribute 'username'

https://teamtreehouse.com/community/attributeerror-anonymoususermixin-object-has-no-attribute-username

I have seen that thread before but it hasn't helped, I will drop my stream view, models.py, and stream.html

stream view

@login_required
@app.route('/stream')
@app.route('/stream/<username>')
def stream(username=None):
    template = 'stream.html'
    if username and username != current_user.username:
        try:
            user = models.User.select().where(
                models.User.username**username).get()
        except models.DoesNotExist:
            abort(404)
        else:
            stream = user.posts.limit(100)
    else:
        stream = current_user.get_stream().limit(100)
        user = current_user
    if username:
        template = 'user_stream.html'
    return render_template(template, stream=stream, user=user)

models.py

import datetime
from wtforms import DateTimeField
from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import UserMixin
from peewee import *

DATABASE = SqliteDatabase('social.db')



class User(UserMixin, Model):
    username = CharField(unique=True)
    email = CharField(unique=True)
    password = CharField(max_length=100)
    joined_at = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    is_admin = BooleanField(default=False)

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        order_by = ('-joined_at',)

    def get_posts(self):
      return Post.select().where(
        (Post.user == self)
      )

    def get_stream(self):
        return Post.select().where(
          (Post.user << self.following()) |      #when searching inside of another set aka who you're following
          (Post.user == self)
        )

    def following(self):
        """The users you are following"""
        return (
            User.select().join(                     
                Relationship, on=Relationship.to_user
                ).where(
                    Relationship.from_user == self
                )

          )
    def followers(self):
        """people following you"""
        return (User.select().join(
                Relationship, on=Relationship.from_user
            ).where(
                Relationship.to_user == self
            )
        )

    @classmethod
    def create_user(cls, username, email, password, admin=False):
        try:
            with DATABASE.transaction():
                cls.create(
                    username=username,
                    email=email,
                    password=generate_password_hash(password),
                    is_admin=admin)
        except IntegrityError:
            raise ValueError("User already exists")


class Post(Model):
    timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    user = ForeignKeyField(
        rel_model=User,
        related_name='posts'
    )
    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        order_by = ('-timestamp',)


class Relationship(Model):
    from_user = ForeignKeyField(User, related_name='relationships')
    to_user = ForeignKeyField(User, related_name='related_to')

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        indexes = (
            (('from_user', 'to_user'), True),
        )


def initialize():
    DATABASE.connect()
    DATABASE.create_tables([User, Post, Relationship], safe=True)
    DATABASE.close()

stream.html

{% extends 'layout.html' %}

{% block content %}
{% for post in stream %}
    <article>
        <h2>
        <a href="{{ url_for('stream', username=post.user.username) }}">{{ post.user.username }}</a>
        </h2>
        <i class='clock'></i><time data-time="{{ post.timestamp }}" class='distime' datetime="{{ post.timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}">{{ post.timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}</time> <a href="{{ url_for('post', post_id=post.id) }}" class='view'>View</a>
        <div class='post'>
            {{ post.content }}
        </div>
    </article>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}

[MOD: updated formatting. Empty line needed before formatted codeblock -cf]

3 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points

This issue is typically related to the user not being logged in. Hence, current_user does not have an attribute username. The fix is to add @login_required to the view, or wrap the code in if current_user.is_authenticated.

Edit: updated for decorator ordering

See flask docs: When using @login_required remember to apply it as innermost decorator to a view function. When applying further decorators, always remember that the route() decorator is the outermost:

@app.route('/secret_page')
@login_required
def secret_page():
    pass
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

I do have login_required... that's why I'm so confused...

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points
from flask import (Flask, g, render_template, flash, redirect, url_for,
                  abort)
from flask.ext.bcrypt import check_password_hash
from flask.ext.login import (LoginManager, login_user, logout_user,
                             login_required, current_user)

import forms
import models

DEBUG = True
PORT = 8000
HOST = '0.0.0.0'

app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'auoesh.bouoastuh.43,uoausoehuosth3ououea.auoub!'

login_manager = LoginManager()
login_manager.init_app(app)
login_manager.login_view = 'login'

@login_manager.user_loader
def load_user(userid):
    try:
        return models.User.get(models.User.id == userid)
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        return None


@app.before_request
def before_request():
    """Connect to the database before each request."""
    g.db = models.DATABASE
    g.db.connect()
    g.user = current_user


@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    """Close the database connection after each request."""
    g.db.close()
    return response


@app.route('/register', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def register():
    form = forms.RegisterForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        flash("Yay, you registered!", "success")
        models.User.create_user(
            username=form.username.data,
            email=form.email.data,
            password=form.password.data
        )
        return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('register.html', form=form)


@app.route('/login', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
def login():
    form = forms.LoginForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        try:
            user = models.User.get(models.User.email == form.email.data)
        except models.DoesNotExist:
            flash("Your email or password doesn't match!", "error")
        else:
            if check_password_hash(user.password, form.password.data):
                login_user(user)
                flash("You've been logged in!", "success")
                return redirect(url_for('index'))
            else:
                flash("Your email or password doesn't match!", "error")
    return render_template('login.html', form=form)


@app.route('/logout')
@login_required
def logout():
    logout_user()
    flash("You've been logged out! Come back soon!", "success")
    return redirect(url_for('index'))


@app.route('/new_post', methods=('GET', 'POST'))
@login_required
def post():
    form = forms.PostForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        models.Post.create(user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                           content=form.content.data.strip())
        flash("Message posted", 'success')
        return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('post.html', form=form)


@app.route('/')
def index():
      stream = models.Post.select().limit(100)
      return render_template('stream.html', stream=stream)


@login_required
@app.route('/stream')
@app.route('/stream/<username>')
def stream(username=None):
    template = 'stream.html'
    if username and username != current_user.username:
        try:
            user = models.User.select().where(
                models.User.username**username).get()
        except models.DoesNotExist:
            abort(404)
        else:
            stream = user.posts.limit(100)
    else:
        stream = current_user.get_stream().limit(100)
        user = current_user
    if username:
        template = 'user_stream.html'
    return render_template(template, stream=stream, user=user)


@app.route('/post/<int:post_id>')
def view_post(post_id):
  posts = models.Post.select().where(models.Post.id == post_id)
  if posts.count() == 0:
      abort(404)
  return render_template('stream.html', stream=posts)


@app.route('/follow/<username>')
@login_required
def follow(username):
    try:
        to_user = models.User.get(models.User.username**username)#case insensitve search **
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        abort(404)
    else:
        try:
            models.Relationship.create(
                from_user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                to_user=to_user
            )

        except models.IntegrityError:
            pass
        else:
            flash("You've followed {}!".format(to_user.username), "success")
    return redirect(url_for('stream', username=to_user.username))


@app.route('/unfollow/<username>')
@login_required
def unfollow(username):
    try:
        to_user = models.User.get(models.User.username**username)
    except models.DoesNotExist:
        abort(404)
    else:
        try:
            models.Relationship.get(
                from_user=g.user._get_current_object(),
                to_user=to_user
            ).delete_instance()

        except models.IntegrityError:
            pass
        else:
            flash("You've unfollowed {}!".format(to_user.username), "success")
    return redirect(url_for('stream', username=to_user.username))



if __name__ == '__main__':
    models.initialize()
    try:
        models.User.create_user(
            username='kennethlove',
            email='kenneth@teamtreehouse.com',
            password='password',
            admin=True
        )
    except ValueError:
        pass
    app.run(debug=DEBUG, host=HOST, port=PORT)