Recently Visited Page Middleware

A Django middleware designed to monitor and fetch recently visited pages for authenticated users.

Installation

Use pip to install the package:

pip install recently-visited-page-middleware

Add the app to your INSTALLED_APPS in your Django project's settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'recently_visited_page_middleware',
    # ...
]

Insert the middleware into your MIDDLEWARE:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    'recently_visited_page_middleware.middleware.RecentlyVisitedPageMiddleware',
    # ...
]

Usage

Import the get_recently_visited_urls function into your views:

from recently_visited_page_middleware.utils import get_recently_visited_urls

Class-Based View Example

In your class-based views, use the function to retrieve recently visited pages:

from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated

class RecentlyVisitedPagesView(APIView):
    permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated]

    def get(self, request):
        user_id = request.user.id

        recently_visited_urls = get_recently_visited_urls(user_id)

        response_data = {
            "status": "success",
            "message": "Recently Visited Pages Retrieved Successfully",
            "data": recently_visited_urls
        }

        return Response(response_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

Function-Based View Example

In your function-based views, utilize the function to retrieve recently visited pages:

from rest_framework.decorators import api_view, permission_classes
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from recently_visited_page_middleware.utils import get_recently_visited_urls

@api_view(['GET'])
@permission_classes([IsAuthenticated])
def recently_visited_pages(request):
    user_id = request.user.id

    recently_visited_urls = get_recently_visited_urls(user_id)

    response_data = {
        "status": "success",
        "message": "Recently Visited Pages Retrieved Successfully",
        "data": recently_visited_urls
    }

    return Response(response_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

Ensure to configure your cache backend mechanism in your settings.py file. It can be set to various options like Redis, Memcached, FileBasedCache, DatabaseCache, LocMemCache, or DummyCache. For more information on cache backend mechanisms, refer to the Django documentation.