from django.contrib import auth
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

class RemoteUserMiddleware(object):
    """
    Middleware for utilizing web-server-provided authentication.

    If request.user is not authenticated, then this middleware attempts to
    authenticate the username passed in the ``REMOTE_USER`` request header.
    If authentication is successful, the user is automatically logged in to
    persist the user in the session.

    The header used is configurable and defaults to ``REMOTE_USER``.  Subclass
    this class and change the ``header`` attribute if you need to use a
    different header.
    """

    # Name of request header to grab username from.  This will be the key as
    # used in the request.META dictionary, i.e. the normalization of headers to
    # all uppercase and the addition of "HTTP_" prefix apply.
    header = "REMOTE_USER"

    def process_request(self, request):
        # AuthenticationMiddleware is required so that request.user exists.
        if not hasattr(request, 'user'):
            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                "The Django remote user auth middleware requires the"
                " authentication middleware to be installed.  Edit your"
                " MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting to insert"
                " 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware'"
                " before the RemoteUserMiddleware class.")
        try:
         
            username = request.META[self.header]
            
        except KeyError:
            # If specified header doesn't exist then return (leaving
            # request.user set to AnonymousUser by the
            # AuthenticationMiddleware).
            return
        # If the user is already authenticated and that user is the user we are
        # getting passed in the headers, then the correct user is already
        # persisted in the session and we don't need to continue.
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            if request.user.username == self.clean_username(username, request):
                return
        # We are seeing this user for the first time in this session, attempt
        # to authenticate the user.
        user = auth.authenticate(remote_user=username)
        if user:
            # User is valid.  Set request.user and persist user in the session
            # by logging the user in.
            request.user = user
            auth.login(request, user)

    def clean_username(self, username, request):
        """
        Allows the backend to clean the username, if the backend defines a
        clean_username method.
        """
        backend_str = request.session[auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
        backend = auth.load_backend(backend_str)
        try:
            username = backend.clean_username(username)
        except AttributeError: # Backend has no clean_username method.
            pass
        return username
