From our previous tutorial, we now know how to setup authentication. We know how to create an admin user or a normal user. here is the git link if you have not gone through the tutorial already. https://letsblogcontent.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/django-authentication/
We are going to build on from the previous tutorial – https://letsblogcontent.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/django-authentication/
You can start directly from this tutorial, just copy the contents from the git repo “pip install -r requirements.txt”
Step 1 – We will now create an app to view session information. lets call this app “admin-data-viewer”. Execute below command
python manage.py startapp AdminModelsRegister the app into the project under the INSTALLED_APPS object
Step 2 – This will create a new app with admin.py inside the app.
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
class SessionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
def _session_data(self, obj):
return obj.get_decoded()
list_display = ['session_key', '_session_data', 'expire_date']
admin.site.register(Session,SessionAdmin)
Step 3 – If you have not created a user, lets create a super user. Execute below command and follow instructions
python manage.py createsuperuserStep 4 – execute makemigrations and migrate
python manage.py makemigrationspython manage.py migrateStep 5 – Run the server
python manage.py runserverStep 6 – Navigate to “http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin” and provide the admin username and password created in step 3 and look for b
Click on sessions to see below information about session
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