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Simple Age Verification Middleware

Author:
eculver
Posted:
July 31, 2009
Language:
Python
Version:
1.1
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0 (after 0 ratings)

Simple middleware+decorator to handle age verification. Modeled after django.contrib.sessions.middleware to add an attribute to request.user called is_age_verified with consideration to snippet 1002. Decorator modeled after django.contrib.auth.decorators.login_required

Installation:

Create `verify_age` URLconf in `urls.py`
Create age verification page that URLconf points to
Define `settings.VERIFY_AGE_URL` based on URLconf
Add `age_verification.AgeVerificationMiddleware` to `MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`
Import both `age_verification_required` and `REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME` in `views.py`
Implement `age_verification.AgeVerification.verify` somewhere to set session attribute on successful verification.
Use `@age_verification_required` decorator for views requiring age verification

Example urls.py:

urlpatterns += patterns('mahalo.answers.views',
    ...
    url(r'^verify_age/?$', 'verify_age', name="verify_age"),
    ...

Example settings.py:

...
VERIFY_URL = '/verify_age/'
...
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += (
    ...
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'myproject.contrib.middleware.age_verification.AgeVerificationMiddleware',
    ...

Example views.py:

from myproject.contrib.decorators import age_verification_required, REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
from myproject.contrib.middleware.age_verification import AgeVerification
...
@age_verification_required
def some_view(request):
    return render_to_response("index.html", {})

def verify_age(request):
    # project specific
    template_vars = default_template(request)

    # form was posted
    if request.POST.has_key("month") and request.POST.has_key("day") and \
        request.POST.has_key("year"):

        # "verify" user
        av = AgeVerification(request.session)
        av.verify()

        if request.POST.has_key(REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
            return HttpResponseRedirect(request.POST[REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME])
        else:
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("root"))

    # no form posted, show it
    else:
        if request.GET.has_key(REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
            template_vars["next"] = request.GET[REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME]

        return render_to_response("verify_age.html", template_vars)

These examples assume age_verification.py lives in myproject/contrib/middleware/ and decorators.py lives in myproject/contrib/

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age_verification.py:

class AgeVerificationMiddleware(object):
  """
  Sets the age_verified request.user attribute 
  """
  def process_request(self, request):
      """sets the age_verified request.user attribute"""
      request.user.__class__.is_age_verified = AgeVerification(request.session)
      return None
    
class AgeVerification:
    def __init__(self, session):
        self.session = session
        self.SESSION_VARIABLE = '_age_verified'

    def __call__(self):
        return self._get()

    def _get(self):
        return self.session.get(self.SESSION_VARIABLE, [])

    def verify(self):
        """
        sets the session flag, determining age verification
        """
        self.session[self.SESSION_VARIABLE] = True

decorators.py:

try:
    from functools import update_wrapper
except ImportError:
    from django.utils.functional import update_wrapper  # Python 2.3, 2.4 fallback.

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.utils.http import urlquote

REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME = "next"

def user_passes_test(test_func, verify_age_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
    """
    Decorator for views that checks that the user passes the given test,
    redirecting to the age verification page if necessary. The test should be a callable
    that takes the user object and returns True if the user passes.
    """
    def decorate(view_func):
        return _CheckAgeVerification(view_func, test_func, verify_age_url, redirect_field_name)
    return decorate

def age_verification_required(function=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
    """
    Decorator for views that checks that the user is age verified, redirecting
    to the age verification page if necessary.
    """
    actual_decorator = user_passes_test(
        lambda u: u.is_age_verified(),
        redirect_field_name=redirect_field_name
    )
    if function:
        return actual_decorator(function)
    return actual_decorator

class _CheckAgeVerification(object):
    """    
    Class that checks that the user passes the given test, redirecting to
    the age verification page if necessary. If the test is passed, the view function
    is invoked. The test should be a callable that takes the user object
    and returns True if the user passes.

    We use a class here so that we can define __get__. This way, when a
    _CheckAgeVerification object is used as a method decorator, the view function
    is properly bound to its instance.
    
    Modeled after django.auth.decorators to be consistent
    """
    def __init__(self, view_func, test_func, verify_age_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
        if not verify_age_url:
            from django.conf import settings
            verify_age_url = settings.VERIFY_AGE_URL
        self.view_func = view_func
        self.test_func = test_func
        self.verify_age_url = verify_age_url
        self.redirect_field_name = redirect_field_name
        update_wrapper(self, view_func)
        
    def __get__(self, obj, cls=None):
        view_func = self.view_func.__get__(obj, cls)
        return _CheckAgeVerification(view_func, self.test_func, self.verify_age_url, self.redirect_field_name)
    
    def __call__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.test_func(request.user):
            return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
        path = urlquote(request.get_full_path())
        tup = self.verify_age_url, self.redirect_field_name, path
        return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s=%s' % tup)

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