from users.models import Identity class IdentityMiddleware: """ Adds a request.identity object which is either the current session's identity, or None if they have not picked one yet/it's invalid. """ def __init__(self, get_response): self.get_response = get_response def __call__(self, request): identity_id = request.session.get("identity_id") if not identity_id: request.identity = None else: try: request.identity = Identity.objects.get(id=identity_id) except Identity.DoesNotExist: request.identity = None response = self.get_response(request) return response