feat: more django context (#252)

Author: daibhin

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-## 4.5.0- 2025-06-09
+## 4.6.0 - 2025-06-09
+
+- feat: add additional user and request context to captured exceptions via the Django integration
+- feat: Add `setup()` function to initialise default client
+
+## 4.5.0 - 2025-06-09
 
 - feat: add before_send callback (#249)
 
@@ -17,11 +22,13 @@
 ## 4.3.2 - 2025-06-06
 
 1. Add context management:
- - New context manager with `posthog.new_context()`
- - Tag functions: `posthog.tag()`, `posthog.get_tags()`, `posthog.clear_tags()`
- - Function decorator:
-   - `@posthog.scoped` - Creates context and captures exceptions thrown within the function
- - Automatic deduplication of exceptions to ensure each exception is only captured once
+
+- New context manager with `posthog.new_context()`
+- Tag functions: `posthog.tag()`, `posthog.get_tags()`, `posthog.clear_tags()`
+- Function decorator:
+  - `@posthog.scoped` - Creates context and captures exceptions thrown within the function
+- Automatic deduplication of exceptions to ensure each exception is only captured once
+
 2. fix: feature flag request use geoip_disable (#235)
 3. chore: pin actions versions (#210)
 4. fix: opinionated setup and clean fn fix (#240)

posthog/__init__.py

@@ -580,8 +580,7 @@ def shutdown():
     _proxy("join")
 
 
-def _proxy(method, *args, **kwargs):
-    """Create an analytics client if one doesn't exist and send to it."""
+def setup():
     global default_client
     if not default_client:
         default_client = Client(
@@ -610,6 +609,11 @@ def _proxy(method, *args, **kwargs):
     default_client.disabled = disabled
     default_client.debug = debug
 
+
+def _proxy(method, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Create an analytics client if one doesn't exist and send to it."""
+    setup()
+
     fn = getattr(default_client, method)
     return fn(*args, **kwargs)
 

posthog/exception_integrations/django.py

@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ def extract_person_data(self):
         headers = self.headers()
 
         # Extract traceparent and tracestate headers
-        traceparent = headers.get("traceparent")
-        tracestate = headers.get("tracestate")
+        traceparent = headers.get("Traceparent")
+        tracestate = headers.get("Tracestate")
 
         # Extract the distinct_id from tracestate
         distinct_id = None
@@ -80,12 +80,38 @@ def extract_person_data(self):
                 distinct_id = match.group(1)
 
         return {
+            **self.user(),
             "distinct_id": distinct_id,
             "ip": headers.get("X-Forwarded-For"),
             "user_agent": headers.get("User-Agent"),
             "traceparent": traceparent,
+            "$request_path": self.request.path,
         }
 
+    def user(self):
+        user_data: dict[str, str] = {}
+
+        user = getattr(self.request, "user", None)
+
+        if user is None or not user.is_authenticated:
+            return user_data
+
+        try:
+            user_id = str(user.pk)
+            if user_id:
+                user_data.setdefault("$user_id", user_id)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+        try:
+            email = str(user.email)
+            if email:
+                user_data.setdefault("email", email)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+        return user_data
+
     def headers(self):
         # type: () -> Dict[str, str]
         return dict(self.request.headers)

posthog/test/exception_integrations/test_django.py

@@ -1,20 +1,44 @@
 from posthog.exception_integrations.django import DjangoRequestExtractor
+from django.test import RequestFactory
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.management import call_command
+import django
 
 DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"
 
+# setup a test app
+if not settings.configured:
+    settings.configure(
+        SECRET_KEY="test",
+        DEFAULT_CHARSET="utf-8",
+        INSTALLED_APPS=[
+            "django.contrib.auth",
+            "django.contrib.contenttypes",
+        ],
+        DATABASES={
+            "default": {
+                "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3",
+                "NAME": ":memory:",
+            }
+        },
+    )
+    django.setup()
+
+    call_command("migrate", verbosity=0, interactive=False)
+
 
 def mock_request_factory(override_headers):
-    class Request:
-        META = {}
-        # TRICKY: Actual django request dict object has case insensitive matching, and strips http from the names
-        headers = {
+    factory = RequestFactory(
+        headers={
             "User-Agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
             "Referrer": "http://example.com",
             "X-Forwarded-For": "193.4.5.12",
             **(override_headers or {}),
         }
+    )
 
-    return Request()
+    request = factory.get("/api/endpoint")
+    return request
 
 
 def test_request_extractor_with_no_trace():
@@ -25,19 +49,22 @@ def test_request_extractor_with_no_trace():
         "user_agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
         "traceparent": None,
         "distinct_id": None,
+        "$request_path": "/api/endpoint",
     }
 
 
 def test_request_extractor_with_trace():
     request = mock_request_factory(
         {"traceparent": "00-0af7651916cd43dd8448eb211c80319c-b7ad6b7169203331-01"}
     )
+
     extractor = DjangoRequestExtractor(request)
     assert extractor.extract_person_data() == {
         "ip": "193.4.5.12",
         "user_agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
         "traceparent": "00-0af7651916cd43dd8448eb211c80319c-b7ad6b7169203331-01",
         "distinct_id": None,
+        "$request_path": "/api/endpoint",
     }
 
 
@@ -54,6 +81,7 @@ def test_request_extractor_with_tracestate():
         "user_agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
         "traceparent": "00-0af7651916cd43dd8448eb211c80319c-b7ad6b7169203331-01",
         "distinct_id": "1234",
+        "$request_path": "/api/endpoint",
     }
 
 
@@ -67,4 +95,27 @@ def test_request_extractor_with_complicated_tracestate():
         "user_agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
         "traceparent": None,
         "distinct_id": "alohaMountainsXUYZ",
+        "$request_path": "/api/endpoint",
+    }
+
+
+def test_request_extractor_with_request_user():
+    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+
+    user = User.objects.create_user(
+        username="test", email="test@posthog.com", password="top_secret"
+    )
+
+    request = mock_request_factory(None)
+    request.user = user
+
+    extractor = DjangoRequestExtractor(request)
+    assert extractor.extract_person_data() == {
+        "ip": "193.4.5.12",
+        "user_agent": DEFAULT_USER_AGENT,
+        "traceparent": None,
+        "distinct_id": None,
+        "$request_path": "/api/endpoint",
+        "email": "test@posthog.com",
+        "$user_id": "1",
     }

posthog/version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = "4.5.0"
+VERSION = "4.6.0"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(VERSION, end="")  # noqa: T201