Support

Currently supporting Django 1.8, 1.11, and 2.0 with Python 2.7/Python 3 where support for versions aligns with Django’s support. See the tox.ini file for specific Python and Django version pairings.

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-groups-cache.readthedocs.io.

Quickstart

Install django-groups-cache:

pip install django-groups-cache

Add it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'groups_cache.apps.GroupsCacheConfig',
    ...
)

Add the middleware to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    ...
    'groups_cache.middleware.GroupsCacheMiddleware',
)

Checking in a Django Template if the user is in a group name:

{% if "admins" in request.groups_cache %}
  <a href="/admin">Admin Panel</a>
{% endif %}

# or use templatetag, note that templatetag is slower

{% load has_group %}

{% if request.user|has_group:"admins" %}
  <a href="/admin">Admin Panel</a>
{% endif %}

Turn on caching:

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
    }
}

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/cache/#memcached for more details on setting up memcached.

Note**

Using django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache is not safe for production unless you are only running a single process (and odds are you aren’t).

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/cache/#local-memory-caching for more details.

Features

• Adds groups_cache property to request object

• Provides templatetag has_group

• Invalidates cache on User or Group model changes and on m2m groups ManyToManyField changes

• Fully tested with high coverage

Running Tests

source <YOURVIRTUALENV>/bin/activate
(myenv) $ pip install tox
(myenv) $ tox

Credits

Tools used in rendering this package:

• Cookiecutter

• cookiecutter-djangopackage

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