Thanks. Though I do not use a Custom Authentication Backend, it should be
possible to inherit from the Default one and just overwrite the get_user
Method.
I will test it out.
On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 3:56:10 PM UTC+1, Tom Evans wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Collin Anderson <cmawe...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you use a custom authentication backend, you could update it every
> time
> > get_user(request) is called.
> >
>
> HTTP is stateless, authentication happens every request, so that gets
> called on every request, causing session modification on each request.
>
> How about:
>
> from django.utils import timezone
>
> class DailyLoginMiddleware(object):
> def process_request(self, request):
> if request.user.is_authenticated():
> today = timezone.now().strftime('%Y%m%d')
> if request.session.get('last_seen') != today:
> request.session['last_seen'] = today
> setattr(request, 'new_today', True)
>
> Store todays date in the session, check to see if it is changed, only
> modify the session if the date has changed, set an attribute on the
> request so that later views can include that information.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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