Move getMenusForScope to the end of the View class.
Adhering to our principle that we the methods we use for generating our menus can be usually found at the bottom of the View class.
class LazyUser(object):
def __get__(self, request, obj_type=None):
if not hasattr(request, '_cached_user'):
from django.contrib.auth import get_user
request._cached_user = get_user(request)
return request._cached_user
class AuthenticationMiddleware(object):
def process_request(self, request):
assert hasattr(request, 'session'), "The Django authentication middleware requires session middleware to be installed. Edit your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting to insert 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware'."
request.__class__.user = LazyUser()
return None