https://github.com/ericflo/django-session-user

A simple piece of middleware that can be added to your Django project which will store and retrieve the logged-in user's information from the session
https://github.com/ericflo/django-session-user

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A simple piece of middleware that can be added to your Django project which will store and retrieve the logged-in user's information from the session

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ericflo/django-session-user
• Owner: ericflo
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2011-06-09T19:06:13.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-06-09T20:04:30.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T20:03:59.372Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 24
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.txt
  • License: LICENSE.py

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django-session-user

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This app is a simple piece of middleware that can be added to your Django

project which will store and retrieve the logged-in user's information from

the session.

Installation

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Add the sesionuser middleware line to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES after the

AuthenticationMiddleware:

    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

        # ...

        'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',

        'sessionuser.middleware.SessionUserMiddleware',

        # ...

    )

Why do this?

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Your server is already fetching the contents of the user's session, which

already contains the user's identity.  Why not store the rest of the user

class's data along with it?  That way you don't have to make a request to the

database for every authenticated web request.

Additionally if you are using a cookie-based session backend (like

django-cookie-sessions, written by yours truly) you can have other systems,

maybe even non-Django systems, which read the cookie and know more information

about the user.

Customizable Settings

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COOKIE_USER_REFRESH_TIME [= 14400]:

    The number of seconds that need to elapse before the user is fetched from

    the database instead of trusting the cookie.  This is useful for making

    sure that even if the user's properties are changed in the database,

    the user's cookie will still be updated.