I need to have a function tell me if a Django session-id is currently authenticated or not. I understand this is already built into Django and I have that working just fine.
But I have an external app that gets passed a session id, and when it passes the session-id string back to Django I need to validate that this session id is valid and currently authenticated.
Where do I start reusing some of the built-in functions Django 1.2 has?
You can do it like this (not tested, but it shows you a possible way):
from django.utils.importlib import import_module
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import get_user
from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
from django.contrib.auth import SESSION_KEY, BACKEND_SESSION_KEY, load_backend
engine = import_module(settings.SESSION_ENGINE)
session = engine.SessionStore(YOUR_SESSION_KEY)
try:
user_id = session[SESSION_KEY]
backend_path = session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
backend = load_backend(backend_path)
user = backend.get_user(user_id) or AnonymousUser()
except KeyError:
user = AnonymousUser()
if user.is_authenticated():
print "User"
else:
print "Guest"