How add an public API to an intranet-like site?

Question

I run a Pinax-site for collaborative purposes. I added 'account.middleware.AuthenticatedMiddleware' to 'MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES' in order to not allow anonymous access to anything on the site.

But now I need public APIs to be enabled. Is there any solutions besides adding 'login_required'-decorator at all the views that still need to be private?

edit Gregor Müllegger answer doesn't work. settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS seems to get overwritten somewhere in the code

class AuthenticatedMiddleware(object):
    def __init__(self, login_url=None, redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME):
        if login_url is None:
            login_url = settings.LOGIN_URL
        self.redirect_field_name = redirect_field_name
        self.login_url = login_url
        self.exemptions = [
            r"^%s" % settings.MEDIA_URL,
            r"^%s" % settings.STATIC_URL,
            r"^%s$" % login_url,
        ] 
        print "settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS ",settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS
        if ( settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS):
            self.exemptions += settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS


print "settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS ",settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS

doesn't print my settings but this:

settings.AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS  ['^/account/signup/$', '^/account/password_reset', '^/account/confirm_email', '^/openid']

I will try to fix it.

Answer 1

I just found a solution:

• generate a second django-project

• use the same db-setting

• link to the needed apps (models.py only if you want to overide the views)

• add apps to INSTALLED_APPS, remove all others

Please leave your comments

Answer 2

Have a look at the source code of AuthenticatedMiddleware.

It reveals that there is a setting called AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS. It can contain regular expressions that are left public. Set it to something like this in your settings.py:

AUTHENTICATED_EXEMPT_URLS = (r"^api/",)

This will make any URLs below /api/ available without being logged in.t