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SWFUpload auth decorator

Author:
debrice
Posted:
February 19, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.0
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I use this snippet to simplify my auth system with flash uploader SWFUpload. flash_login_required ensures that the user is authenticated and inject the context dictionnary into the specified template. To redirect a user, just set the variable context['redirect'] with an url.

Remember to include the cookie js in your template to get the sessionid variable POSTed to your view:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/swfupload/swfupload.cookies.js"></script>

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def flash_login_required(template):
    """
    Decorator to recognized a user  by its session
    when using SWFUpload and its cookie plugin.
    """
    def decorator(view_func):
        def newfn(request, *args, **kwargs):
            from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
            from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render_to_response
            from django.contrib.auth.models import User
            from django.template import RequestContext

            session = get_object_or_404(Session, session_key=request.POST.get('sessionid'))
            session_data = session.get_decoded()
            
            user_id = session_data['_auth_user_id']
            request.user = get_object_or_404(User, pk = user_id)

            # you can fill default value in context dict
            # it will be injected to the template after
            context = {}
            context['profile'] = request.user.get_profile()

            view_func(request, context, **kwargs)

            if context.has_key('redirect'):
                return HttpResponseRedirect(context['redirect'])
            return render_to_response(template, 
                                      context, 
                                      RequestContext(request))
        return newfn
    return decorator

# Example in a view 
#from common.decorators import flash_login_required
#
#@flash_login_required('clip/clip_uploaded.html')
#def clip_upload_item(request, context):
#    context['key'] = 'value'

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Comments

revolunet (on April 28, 2009):

nice tip, it works. but seems very unsecure to bypass the sessionid this way.

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menendez (on June 29, 2009):

Lines 11 and 12 should be replaced with this so that it works with any session engine:

engine = import(settings.SESSION_ENGINE, {}, {}, ['']) session_data = engine.SessionStore(request.POST.get('sessionid'))

Line 5 can be removed.

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