From 9a10c863299ef06221c0d891752e49ecd07ea90a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sybren=20A=2E=20St=C3=BCvel?= <sybren@stuvel.eu>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 13:41:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added pillar.auth.current_web_user to easily get the current
 UserClass.

---
 pillar/auth/__init__.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pillar/auth/__init__.py b/pillar/auth/__init__.py
index aa648694..f3962649 100644
--- a/pillar/auth/__init__.py
+++ b/pillar/auth/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import typing
 from flask import session
 import flask_login
 import flask_oauthlib.client
+from werkzeug.local import LocalProxy
 
 from ..api import utils
 from ..api.utils import authentication
@@ -131,3 +132,13 @@ def config_oauth_login(app):
     log.info('OAuth Blender-ID login setup as %s', social_blender_id['app_id'])
 
     return oauth_blender_id
+
+
+def _get_current_web_user() -> UserClass:
+    """Returns the current web user as a UserClass instance."""
+
+    return flask_login.current_user
+
+
+current_web_user: UserClass = LocalProxy(_get_current_web_user)
+"""The current web user."""