Implement an authentication backend that will look up the user in the old

community login system in case it's not present in the django auth one,
and if necessary create the object in the django one.

diff --git a/pgweb/settings.py b/pgweb/settings.py
index d7c88b84494c7521f54863555643895f25db3396..0bf62a987e109c0f18085ece5bc5f5c38cccd22c 100644 (file)
--- a/pgweb/settings.py
+++ b/pgweb/settings.py
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ LOGIN_URL='/account/login/'
 LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL='/account/'
 LOGOUT_URL='/account/logout/'
 
+AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
+    'util.auth.AuthBackend',
+)
+
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',

diff --git a/pgweb/util/auth.py b/pgweb/util/auth.py
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..e140ef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pgweb/util/auth.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend
+from django.db import connection
+
+# Special version of the authentication backend, so we can deal with migration
+# of accounts from the old community login system. Once we consider all accounts
+# migrated, we can remove this one and use the default backend.
+class AuthBackend(ModelBackend):
+       def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):
+               try:
+                       user = User.objects.get(username=username)
+
+                       # If user is found, check the password using the django
+                       # methods alone.
+                       if user.check_password(password):
+                               return user
+
+                       # User found but password wrong --> tell django it is wrong
+                       return None
+               except User.DoesNotExist:
+                       # User does not exist. See if it exists in the old system,
+                       # and if it does, migrate it to the new one.
+                       curs = connection.cursor()
+                       curs.execute('SELECT * FROM community_login_old(%s,%s)', (username, password))
+                       rows = curs.fetchall()
+                       if len(rows) != 1:
+                               # No rows returned, something clearly went wrong
+                               return None
+                       if rows[0][1] == 1:
+                               # Value 1 in field 1 means the login succeeded. In this case,
+                               # create a user in the django system, and migrate all settings
+                               # we can think of.
+                               user = User(username=username, password=password, email=rows[0][3], first_name=rows[0][2])
+                               user.save()
+                               return user
+                       # Any other value in field 1 means login failed, so tell django we did
+                       return None
+
+               return None # Should never get here, but just in case...
+