app/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:42 +0000
changeset 208 e076aee6e90f
parent 54 03e267d67478
child 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Take advantage of the Model inheritance provided by polymodel.PolyModel to have Club, School, Sponsor, and Organization actually inherit from the Group Model class, rather than being composed via ReferenceProperties. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier, Augie Fackler Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/606

import datetime
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

SESSION_KEY = '_auth_user_id'
BACKEND_SESSION_KEY = '_auth_user_backend'
REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME = 'next'

def load_backend(path):
    i = path.rfind('.')
    module, attr = path[:i], path[i+1:]
    try:
        mod = __import__(module, {}, {}, [attr])
    except ImportError, e:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured, 'Error importing authentication backend %s: "%s"' % (module, e)
    except ValueError, e:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured, 'Error importing authentication backends. Is AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS a correctly defined list or tuple?'
    try:
        cls = getattr(mod, attr)
    except AttributeError:
        raise ImproperlyConfigured, 'Module "%s" does not define a "%s" authentication backend' % (module, attr)
    return cls()

def get_backends():
    from django.conf import settings
    backends = []
    for backend_path in settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS:
        backends.append(load_backend(backend_path))
    return backends

def authenticate(**credentials):
    """
    If the given credentials are valid, return a User object.
    """
    for backend in get_backends():
        try:
            user = backend.authenticate(**credentials)
        except TypeError:
            # This backend doesn't accept these credentials as arguments. Try the next one.
            continue
        if user is None:
            continue
        # Annotate the user object with the path of the backend.
        user.backend = "%s.%s" % (backend.__module__, backend.__class__.__name__)
        return user

def login(request, user):
    """
    Persist a user id and a backend in the request. This way a user doesn't
    have to reauthenticate on every request.
    """
    if user is None:
        user = request.user
    # TODO: It would be nice to support different login methods, like signed cookies.
    user.last_login = datetime.datetime.now()
    user.save()
    request.session[SESSION_KEY] = user.id
    request.session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY] = user.backend
    if hasattr(request, 'user'):
        request.user = user

def logout(request):
    """
    Remove the authenticated user's ID from the request.
    """
    try:
        del request.session[SESSION_KEY]
    except KeyError:
        pass
    try:
        del request.session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
    except KeyError:
        pass
    if hasattr(request, 'user'):
        from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
        request.user = AnonymousUser()

def get_user(request):
    from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
    try:
        user_id = request.session[SESSION_KEY]
        backend_path = request.session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
        backend = load_backend(backend_path)
        user = backend.get_user(user_id) or AnonymousUser()
    except KeyError:
        user = AnonymousUser()
    return user