DEPRECATED: django-user-emulation

Installable app enabling emulation of another user

Important

This project is no longer maintained. The repository will remain available in a read-only mode, but we are no longer accepting pull requests or addressing issues.

What This Means

• The code is provided as-is, and can still be used and forked, but is no longer being actively developed.
• We will not be adding new features, fixing non-critical bugs, or responding to questions.
• No additional releases will be made.

Archive Notice

On 11/13/2023, this project was officially archived. For historical purposes, the source is still available, but we encourage you to find alternatives that support recent updates and active development.

Documentation

• TODO

Quickstart

Install django-user-emulation:

pip install git+https://github.com/wharton/django-user-emulation.git

Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
    'django_user_emulation.apps.DjangoUserEmulationConfig',
    ...
)

Add middleware processor 'django_user_emulation.middleware.EmulationRemoteUserMiddleware', App must also include 3 middleware from django.contrib.auth.middleware

AuthenticationMiddleware, RemoteUserMiddleware and SessionAuthenticationMiddleware

django_user_emulation middleware must be between

'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware' and 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware'

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django_user_emulation.middleware.EmulationRemoteUserMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.RemoteUserMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    ...
)

Add context processor

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': ...,
        'DIRS':...,.
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                ...
                "django_user_emulation.context_processors.emulation",
                ...
            ]
        }
    }
]

Add django-user-emulation's URL patterns:

from django_user_emulation import urls as django_user_emulation_urls


urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^', include(django_user_emulation_urls)),
    ...
]

Features

• TODO

Running Tests

Does the code actually work?

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install tox
(myenv) $ tox

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter
• cookiecutter-djangopackage