README.rst

django-lockdown

django-lockdown is a reusable Django application for locking down an entire site (or particular views), with customizable date ranges and preview authorization.

Installation

Install from PyPI with easy_install or pip:

pip install django-lockdown

To use django-lockdown in your Django project:

1. Add 'lockdown' to your INSTALLED_APPS.
2. To enable admin preview of locked-down sites or views with passwords, set the LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS setting to a tuple of one or more plain-text passwords.
3. Protect the entire site by using middleware, or protect individual views by applying a decorator to them.

For more advanced customization of admin preview authorization, see the LOCKDOWN_FORM setting.

Dependencies

django-lockdown requires Python 2.7 or later and Django 1.8 or later.

Usage

Using the middleware

To lock down the entire site, add the lockdown middleware to your middlewares. How to set this setting depends on the Django version you're using.

For Django 1.8 and 1.9 use:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    # ...
    'lockdown.middleware.LockdownMiddleware',
)

For Django 1.10 and newer use:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    'lockdown.middleware.LockdownMiddleware',
]

Optionally, you may also add URL regular expressions to a LOCKDOWN_URL_EXCEPTIONS setting.

Using the decorator

• Import the decorator:

  from lockdown.decorators import lockdown
  

• Apply the decorator to individual views you want to protect. For example:

  @lockdown()
  def secret_page(request):
      # ...
  

The decorator accepts seven arguments:

form

The form to use for providing an admin preview, rather than the form referenced by LOCKDOWN_FORM. Note that this must be an actual form class, not a module reference like the setting.

until_date

The date to use rather than the date provided by LOCKDOWN_UNTIL.

after_date

The date to use rather than the date provided by LOCKDOWN_AFTER.

logout_key

A preview logout key to use, rather than the one provided by LOCKDOWN_LOGOUT_KEY.

session_key

The session key to use, rather than the one provided by LOCKDOWN_SESSION_KEY.

url_exceptions

A list of regular expressions for which matching urls can bypass the lockdown (rather than using those defined in LOCKDOWN_URL_EXCEPTIONS).

extra_context

A dictionary of context data that will be added to the default context data passed to the template.

Any further keyword arguments are passed to the admin preview form. The default form accepts one argument:

passwords

A tuple of passwords to use, rather than the ones provided by LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS.

Settings

LOCKDOWN_ENABLED

An optional boolean value that, if set to False, disables django-lockdown globally. Defaults to True (lock down enabled).

LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS

One or more plain-text passwords which allow the previewing of the site or views protected by django-lockdown:

LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS = ('letmein', 'beta')

If this setting is not provided (and the default LOCKDOWN_FORM is being used), there will be no admin preview for locked-down pages.

If a LOCKDOWN_FORM other than the default is used, this setting has no effect.

LOCKDOWN_URL_EXCEPTIONS

An optional list/tuple of regular expressions to be matched against incoming URLs. If a URL matches a regular expression in this list, it will not be locked. For example:

LOCKDOWN_URL_EXCEPTIONS = (
    r'^/about/$',   # unlock /about/
    r'\.json$',   # unlock JSON API
)

LOCKDOWN_UNTIL

Used to lock the site down up until a certain date. Set to a datetime.datetime object.

If neither LOCKDOWN_UNTIL nor LOCKDOWN_AFTER is provided (the default), the site or views will always be locked.

LOCKDOWN_AFTER

Used to lock the site down after a certain date. Set to a datetime.datetime object.

See also: LOCKDOWN_UNTIL.

LOCKDOWN_LOGOUT_KEY

A key which, if provided in the query string of a locked URL, will log out the user from the preview.

LOCKDOWN_FORM

The default lockdown form allows admin preview by entering a preset plain-text password (checked, by default, against the LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS setting). To set up more advanced methods of authenticating access to locked-down pages, set LOCKDOWN_FORM to the Python dotted path to a Django Form subclass. This form will be displayed on the lockout page. If the form validates when submitted, the user will be allowed access to locked pages:

LOCKDOWN_FORM = 'path.to.my.CustomLockdownForm'

A form for authenticating against django.contrib.auth users is provided with django-lockdown (use LOCKDOWN_FORM = 'lockdown.forms.AuthForm'). It accepts two keyword arguments (in the lockdown decorator):

staff_only

Only allow staff members to preview. Defaults to True (but the default can be provided as a LOCKDOWN_AUTHFORM_STAFF_ONLY setting).

superusers_only

Only allow superusers to preview. Defaults to False (but the default can be provided as a LOCKDOWN_AUTHFORM_SUPERUSERS_ONLY setting).

LOCKDOWN_AUTHFORM_STAFF_ONLY

If using lockdown.forms.AuthForm and this setting is True, only staff users will be allowed to preview (True by default).

Has no effect if not using lockdown.forms.AuthForm.

LOCKDOWN_AUTHFORM_SUPERUSERS_ONLY

If using lockdown.forms.AuthForm and this setting is True, only superusers will be allowed to preview (False by default). Has no effect if not using lockdown.forms.AuthForm.

LOCKDOWN_SESSION_KEY

Once a client is authorized for admin preview, they will continue to be authorized for the remainder of their browsing session (using Django's built-in session support). LOCKDOWN_SESSION_KEY defines the session key used; the default is 'lockdown-allow'.

Templates

django-lockdown uses a single template, lockdown/form.html. The default template displays a simple "coming soon" message and the preview authorization form, if a password via LOCKDOWN_PASSWORDS is set.

If you want to use a different template, you can use Djangos template loaders to specify a path inside your project to search for templates, before searching for templates included in django-lockdown.

In your overwritten template the lockdown preview form is available in the template context as form.