refactor: remove attempt_time parameter

As we pass down the whole request, we no longer need to extract the axes_attempt_time anymore.

This is a potential breaking change, but the impacted functions are not part of the documented API.

axes/attempts.py

@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ from axes.models import AccessAttempt
 log = getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def get_cool_off_threshold(
-    attempt_time: Optional[datetime] = None, request: Optional[HttpRequest] = None
-) -> datetime:
+def get_cool_off_threshold(request: Optional[HttpRequest] = None) -> datetime:
     """
     Get threshold for fetching access attempts from the database.
     """
@@ -25,6 +23,7 @@ def get_cool_off_threshold(
             "Cool off threshold can not be calculated with settings.AXES_COOLOFF_TIME set to None"
         )
 
+    attempt_time = request.axes_attempt_time
     if attempt_time is None:
         return now() - cool_off
     return attempt_time - cool_off
@@ -64,14 +63,12 @@ def get_user_attempts(
         )
         return attempts_list
 
-    threshold = get_cool_off_threshold(request.axes_attempt_time, request)
+    threshold = get_cool_off_threshold(request)
     log.debug("AXES: Getting access attempts that are newer than %s", threshold)
     return [attempts.filter(attempt_time__gte=threshold) for attempts in attempts_list]
 
 
-def clean_expired_user_attempts(
-    attempt_time: Optional[datetime] = None, request: Optional[HttpRequest] = None
-) -> int:
+def clean_expired_user_attempts(request: Optional[HttpRequest] = None) -> int:
     """
     Clean expired user attempts from the database.
     """
@@ -82,7 +79,7 @@ def clean_expired_user_attempts(
         )
         return 0
 
-    threshold = get_cool_off_threshold(attempt_time, request)
+    threshold = get_cool_off_threshold(request)
     count, _ = AccessAttempt.objects.filter(attempt_time__lt=threshold).delete()
     log.info(
         "AXES: Cleaned up %s expired access attempts from database that were older than %s",

axes/handlers/database.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class AxesDatabaseHandler(AbstractAxesHandler, AxesBaseHandler):
             return
 
         # 1. database query: Clean up expired user attempts from the database before logging new attempts
-        clean_expired_user_attempts(request.axes_attempt_time, request)
+        clean_expired_user_attempts(request)
 
         username = get_client_username(request, credentials)
         client_str = get_client_str(
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ class AxesDatabaseHandler(AbstractAxesHandler, AxesBaseHandler):
         """
 
         # 1. database query: Clean up expired user attempts from the database
-        clean_expired_user_attempts(request.axes_attempt_time, request)
+        clean_expired_user_attempts(request)
 
         username = user.get_username()
         credentials = get_credentials(username)
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class AxesDatabaseHandler(AbstractAxesHandler, AxesBaseHandler):
         """
 
         # 1. database query: Clean up expired user attempts from the database
-        clean_expired_user_attempts(request.axes_attempt_time, request)
+        clean_expired_user_attempts(request)
 
         username = user.get_username() if user else None
         client_str = get_client_str(

tests/test_attempts.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
 from django.http import HttpRequest
-from django.test import override_settings
+from django.test import override_settings, RequestFactory
 from django.utils.timezone import now
 
 from axes.attempts import get_cool_off_threshold
@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ class GetCoolOffThresholdTestCase(AxesTestCase):
     def test_get_cool_off_threshold(self):
         timestamp = now()
 
+        request = RequestFactory().post("/")
         with patch("axes.attempts.now", return_value=timestamp):
-            attempt_time = timestamp
-            threshold_now = get_cool_off_threshold(attempt_time)
+            request.axes_attempt_time = timestamp
+            threshold_now = get_cool_off_threshold(request)
 
-            attempt_time = None
-            threshold_none = get_cool_off_threshold(attempt_time)
+            request.axes_attempt_time = None
+            threshold_none = get_cool_off_threshold(request)
 
         self.assertEqual(threshold_now, threshold_none)