view accounts/__init__.py @ 629:f4c043cf55ac

Wiki integration. Requests don't always have sessions. In particular this occurs when a request is made without a trailing slash. The Common middleware redirects when this happens, and the middleware process_request() processing stops before a session can get added. So just set an attribute on the request object for each operation. This seemed weird to me at first, but there are plenty of examples of this in the Django code base already.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:06 -0600
parents ee87ea74d46b
children 988782c6ce6c
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import datetime
import logging

from django.contrib.auth.models import User


def create_new_user(pending_user, ip=None, admin_activation=False):
    """
    This function contains the code to create a new user from a
    pending user. The pending user is deleted and the new user
    is saved. A log message is produced. If admin_activation is false,
    then ip should be the user's IP they confirmed from, if available.

    """
    new_user = User()

    new_user.username = pending_user.username
    new_user.first_name = ''
    new_user.last_name = ''
    new_user.email = pending_user.email
    new_user.password = pending_user.password     # already been hashed
    new_user.is_staff = False
    new_user.is_active = True
    new_user.is_superuser = False
    new_user.last_login = datetime.datetime.now()
    new_user.date_joined = new_user.last_login

    new_user.save()
    pending_user.delete()

    if admin_activation:
        msg = 'Accounts registration confirmed by ADMIN for %s' % new_user.username
    else:
        msg = 'Accounts registration confirmed by USER for %s from %s' % (
                new_user.username, ip)

    logging.info(msg)