apps/filebrowser/decorators.py

   1 # -*- coding: utf-8
   2
   3 from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
   4 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render_to_response
   5 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
   6 from django.template import RequestContext
   7 from django.conf import settings
   8
   9
  10 def flash_login_required(function):
  11     """
  12     Decorator to recognize a user  by its session.
  13     Used for Flash-Uploading.
  14     """
  15
  16     def decorator(request, *args, **kwargs):
  17         try:
  18             engine = __import__(settings.SESSION_ENGINE, {}, {}, [''])
  19         except:
  20             import django.contrib.sessions.backends.db
  21             engine = django.contrib.sessions.backends.db
  22         session_data = engine.SessionStore(request.POST.get('session_key'))
  23         user_id = session_data['_auth_user_id']
  24         #will return 404 if the session ID does not resolve to a valid user
  25         request.user = get_object_or_404(User, pk=user_id)
  26         return function(request, *args, **kwargs)
  27     return decorator