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Get current user

This recipe gets information about the user accessing this Databricks App from their HTTP headers.

Code snippet​

app.py
from flask import request

headers = request.headers
email = headers.get("X-Forwarded-Email")
username = headers.get("X-Forwarded-Preferred-Username")
user = headers.get("X-Forwarded-User")
ip = headers.get("X-Real-Ip")
print(f"E-mail: {email}, username: {username}, user: {user}, ip: {ip}")
info

This sample requires on-behalf-of-user authentication to be enabled for your app to access the X-Forwarded-Access-Token header. Without this, you will only have access to basic user information from the headers, not the detailed information from the Databricks API. Without the user token present, w.current_user.me() will return information about the app service principal.

Permissions​

No permissions configuration required.

Dependencies​

requirements.txt
dash