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Authenticate against Active Directory - LDAP (my version)

This is based on [snippet 501](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/501/), with some corrections: 1. if user doesn't exist and AD.authenticate passes, then create new user - don't store password - prevent default django auth backend authentication 2. if user exists and AD.authenticate passes - django User object is updated 3. various error handling 4. fixes (some mentioned in original snippet) 5. some settings removed from settings to backend module 6. other changes (ADUser class, re-indent, logging etc.) 7. ignores problem with search_ext_s (DSID-0C090627) 8. caching connection - when invalid then re-connect and try again Note that there is also ldaps:// (SSL version) django auth backend on [snippet 901](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/901/). Possible improvements: 1. define new settings param - use secured - then LDAPS (snippet 901) 2. define new settings extra ldap options - e.g. protocol version 3. fetch more data from AD - fill in user data - maybe to make this configurable to be able to update user.get_profile() data too (some settings that has mapping AD-data -> User/UserProfile data)

  • auth
  • ldap
  • active-directory
  • backend
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Non-Javascript select list navigator

If you need a simple select list (picklist) containing all site categories (or some other taxonomic group) and don't want to depend on Javascript, here's how to build a simple category navigator in Django, using HttpResponseRedirect.

  • form
  • select
  • picklist
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"Dynamic" form with a hidden field

This code demonstrates two simple techniques: 1. so-called "dynamic" forms, in which the form is created at run time by the model 2. using a widget (forms.widgets.HiddenInput) for a field of the form. I feel like this could be highlighted more in the documentation. You need to do something similar to get a textarea (forms.CharField(widget=forms.widgets.Textarea()) and it took me too long to figure this out. There are, no doubt, good reasons not to do what I'm doing here the way I'm doing it. Peanut gallery?

  • dynamic
  • form
  • field
  • hidden
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RequiredNullBooleanField

In our situation, we want the user to choose either yes or no. The only requirement is that they fill out the form. It is _not_ required that they answer True/Yes. The BooleanField treats None and False as False; The NullBooleanField distinguishes between None and False, but it doesn't raise any validation errors. Subclassing the NullBooleanField was better than overriding the clean method on all of our NullBooleanField instances.

  • required
  • boolean
  • bool
  • boolean-field
  • null-boolean-field
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Custom Admin Redirects

This little bit of code will let you reference parts of the admin but lets you control where it returns to. For instance, I have a list of objects in the admin and i want to have a delete link for each object. I don't want them to return to the changelist after a delete however, i want them to return to my list. cheers

  • admin
  • redirect
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Filter to adjust forloop.counter across pages in a paginated view

**Update:** Never mind. See [dc's comment](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1391/#c1763) below for a much easier way to do this. I recently had to write a template for a paginated view which displayed a serial number for each `object` in the `object_list`. I normally use `forloop.counter` for general purpose serial numbers. However this did not work with paginated views as the counter gets reset in each page. This caused the serial numbers to go from 1 to #-of-results-in-the-page and then repeat. **Assumptions:** The `adjust_for_pagination` filter adjusts the value of `forloop.counter` based on the current page. `Page` and `is_paginated` variables are expected to be present in the context. These should respectively denote the current page number (1 based) and if the results are paginated. `RESULTS_PER_PAGE` is currently taken from the settings file. I couldn't think of a way to pass this value also from the template.

  • filters
  • pagination
  • forloop.counter
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django-noserun for testing

I wanted to use Nose with Django so I came up with this. `TEST_RUNNER = 'noserun.run_tests'` in settings.py It does not do setup/teardown implicitly between test methods, you need to call *nosetest.test.flush()* and *nosetest.test.loaddata()* manually if you want that. Enables the method names *setup* and *teardown* The environment variable *NOSE_COVER* runs coverage tests and *NO_DROPDB* preserves the test db.

  • testing
  • test
  • nose
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Author: mjt
  • 1
  • 2

Paginator Tag for 1.x

This is a [Paginator Tag](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/73/) for 1.x. Since the context is less overfull, the template, paginator.html, needs more logic. Put the tag in your templatetags and the template at the root of a template-directory. The tag will work out of the box in a generic view, other views must provide `is_paginated` set to True, `page_obj`, and `paginator`. You can get the `object_list` from the `page_obj`: `page_obj.object_list`. See [the pagination documentation](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/pagination/).

  • tag
  • paginator
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Author: HM
  • 1
  • 4

request_logger

Simple logger, stores all query parameter and post parameters for each query.

  • debugging
  • logger
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function tracing decorator

This is a decorator that logs function arguments, return object and time taken for execution as well as any exception that might have been raised by the function. Useful for debug logging.

  • decorator
  • debugging
  • tracing
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