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Implement #45, add a who's online feature for the forums. Created middleware that caches usernames and guest session ids in the cache. Added a tag that displays this info.
author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:08:05 +0000 |
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""" Middleware for the forums application. """ import datetime from django.core.cache import cache from django.conf import settings USER_ONLINE_TIMEOUT = datetime.timedelta(minutes=15) USERS_ONLINE_KEY = 'users_online' GUESTS_ONLINE_KEY = 'guests_online' USERS_CACHE_TIMEOUT = 60 * 60 * 24 # units are seconds class WhosOnline(object): """ This middleware class keeps track of which registered users have been seen recently, and the number of unique unregistered users. We use the Django cache system to store this information. This middleware should come after the authentication middleware, as we count on the user attribute being attached to the request. """ def process_request(self, request): """ Keep track of who is online. """ now = datetime.datetime.now() cutoff = now - USER_ONLINE_TIMEOUT users_online = cache.get(USERS_ONLINE_KEY, {}) guests_online = cache.get(GUESTS_ONLINE_KEY, {}) # update timestamp for user if request.user.is_authenticated(): users_online[request.user.username] = now else: sid = request.COOKIES.get(settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME, '') guests_online[sid] = now # expire old records for username, timestamp in users_online.items(): if timestamp < cutoff: del users_online[username] for sid, timestamp in guests_online.items(): if timestamp < cutoff: del guests_online[sid] cache.set(USERS_ONLINE_KEY, users_online, USERS_CACHE_TIMEOUT) cache.set(GUESTS_ONLINE_KEY, guests_online, USERS_CACHE_TIMEOUT)