moved a config out of middleware into config and also updated README

README.md

@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ the goal is to do those things very well, and have full unit tests with docs.
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 Goals for 0.1
 =============
@@ -105,10 +103,10 @@ destination.
 Cache backend:
 ==============
 
-- IP_attempts (count, TTL)
+- ip_attempts (count, TTL)
 - username_attempts (count, TTL)
-- ip_blocks (list) # how to expire when in a list?
-- username_blocks (list) # how to expire item in the list?
+- ip_blocks (list)
+- username_blocks (list)
 
 cache keys:
 -----------
@@ -192,29 +190,30 @@ Customizing Defender
 You have a couple options available to you to customize ``django-defender`` a bit.
 These should be defined in your ``settings.py`` file.
 
-* ``DEFENDER_LOGIN_FAILURE_LIMIT``: The number of login attempts allowed before a
+* ``DEFENDER_LOGIN_FAILURE_LIMIT``: Int: The number of login attempts allowed before a
 record is created for the failed logins.  Default: ``3``
-* ``DEFENDER_USE_USER_AGENT``: If ``True``, lock out / log based on an IP address
+* ``DEFENDER_USE_USER_AGENT``: Boolean: If ``True``, lock out / log based on an IP address
 AND a user agent.  This means requests from different user agents but from
 the same IP are treated differently.  Default: ``False``
-* ``DEFENDER_COOLOFF_TIME``: If set, defines a period of inactivity after which
+* ``DEFENDER_COOLOFF_TIME``: Int: If set, defines a period of inactivity after which
 old failed login attempts will be forgotten. An integer, will be interpreted as a
 number of seconds. If ``0``, the locks will not expire. Default: ``300``
-* ``DEFENDER_LOCKOUT_TEMPLATE``: If set, specifies a template to render when a
+* ``DEFENDER_LOCKOUT_TEMPLATE``: String: If set, specifies a template to render when a
 user is locked out. Template receives cooloff_time and failure_limit as
 context variables. Default: ``None``
-* ``DEFENDER_USERNAME_FORM_FIELD``: the name of the form field that contains your
+* ``DEFENDER_USERNAME_FORM_FIELD``: String: the name of the form field that contains your
 users usernames. Default: ``username``
-* ``DEFENDER_REVERSE_PROXY_HEADER``: the name of the http header with your
+* ``DEFENDER_REVERSE_PROXY_HEADER``: String: the name of the http header with your
 reverse proxy IP address  Default: ``HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR``
-* ``DEFENDER_CACHE_PREFIX``: The cache prefix for your defender keys.
+* ``DEFENDER_CACHE_PREFIX``: String: The cache prefix for your defender keys.
 Default: ``defender``
-* ``DEFENDER_LOCKOUT_URL``: The URL you want to redirect to if someone is
+* ``DEFENDER_LOCKOUT_URL``: String: The URL you want to redirect to if someone is
 locked out.
-* ``DEFENDER_REDIS_URL``: the redis url for defender.
+* ``DEFENDER_REDIS_URL``: String: the redis url for defender.
 Default: ``redis://localhost:6379/0``
 (Example with password: ``redis://:mypassword@localhost:6379/0``)
-
+* ``DEFENDER_PROTECTED_LOGINS``: Tuple: Used by ``ViewDecoratorMiddleware`` to decide
+which login urls need protecting. Default: ``('/accounts/login/',)``
 
 Running Tests
 =============

defender/config.py

@@ -46,3 +46,7 @@ ERROR_MESSAGE = ugettext_lazy("Please enter a correct username and password. "
 USERNAME_FORM_FIELD = get_setting('DEFENDER_USERNAME_FORM_FIELD', 'username')
 
 LOCKOUT_URL = get_setting('DEFENDER_LOCKOUT_URL')
+
+
+PROTECTED_LOGINS = get_setting('DEFENDER_PROTECTED_LOGINS',
+                               ('/accounts/login/',))

defender/middleware.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 
 from .decorators import watch_login
+from .config import PROTECTED_LOGINS
 
 
 class FailedLoginMiddleware(object):
@@ -22,14 +22,8 @@ class ViewDecoratorMiddleware(object):
     `defender.middleware.FailedLoginMiddleware` and before the django
     flatpages middleware.
     """
-    watched_logins = getattr(
-        settings, 'DEFENDER_PROTECTED_LOGINS', (
-            '/accounts/login/',
-        )
-    )
 
     def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
-        if request.path in self.watched_logins:
+        if request.path in PROTECTED_LOGINS:
             return watch_login(view_func)(request, *view_args, **view_kwargs)
-
         return None

defender/tests.py

@@ -444,15 +444,16 @@ class AccessAttemptTest(TestCase):
         from .admin import AccessAttemptAdmin
         AccessAttemptAdmin
 
-    @patch('defender.middleware.ViewDecoratorMiddleware.watched_logins',
-           (ADMIN_LOGIN_URL, ))
+    @patch('defender.config.PROTECTED_LOGINS', (ADMIN_LOGIN_URL, ))
     def test_decorator_middleware(self):
         # because watch_login is called twice in this test (once by the
         # middleware and once by the decorator) we have half as many attempts
         # before getting locked out.
-        # FIXME: I tried making sure every request in only processed once but
-        # there seems to be an issue with django reusing request objects.
-        for i in range(0, int(config.FAILURE_LIMIT / 2)):
+        # this is getting called twice, once for each decorator, not sure how
+        # to dynamically remove one of the middlewares during a test so we
+        # divide the failure limit by 2.
+
+        for i in range(0, int(config.FAILURE_LIMIT)):
             response = self._login()
             # Check if we are in the same login page
             self.assertContains(response, LOGIN_FORM_KEY)