Django snippets

#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.conf import settings
import thread,threading, time, random, base64, time, os, datetime, gzip
from xml.dom.minidom import Document
from django.db import connection

class LoggingActivities(threading.Thread):
	"""
	Author: Julian Moritz, public@julianmoritz.de
	This middleware is logging the website-activities on your django-project-website.
	It does NOT save the users' ip-addresses (according to german law) but a unique ID for each user.
	Once added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, you can control it via 3 variables in your settings.py:
	- STATS_LOGDIR - the directory-name where it puts the logfiles into (default: logs)
	- STATS_BUFFER - the file-buffer-size in bytes for your logfile (default: 10MB)
	- STATS_TIME - the time the logfile is flushed to disk (default: 12 hours)
	Note: At the moment there is now import to database and evaluating script written. I will do this in time.
	License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/deed.en_GB
	Output: Have a look at http://www.julianmoritz.de/dl/logs.xml
	"""
	def __init__(self):
		threading.Thread.__init__(self)
		try:
			l = settings.STATS_LOGDIR
		except:
			l = "logs"
			
		if not os.path.isdir(l):
			os.mkdir(l)
			
		try:
			b = settings.STATS_BUFFER
		except:
			b = 1024*1024*10
			
		try:
			t = settings.STATS_TIME
		except:
			t = 60*60*12
		
		self.buffer = b
		self.logdir = l
		self.time = t
		self.lock = thread.allocate_lock()
		self.__rand_id = base64.b64encode(str(random.random()))
		fname = base64.b64encode(str(random.random())) + ".xml"
		self.logfile = open(os.path.join(self.logdir, fname), "w", self.buffer)
		self.xmldoc = Document()
		self.logs = self.xmldoc.createElement("logs")
		self.xmldoc.appendChild(self.logs)
		self.start()
	
	def process_request(self,request):
		request.STATS = {}
		request.STATS["start"] = datetime.datetime.now()
		return None
		
	def process_view(self, request, view, args, kwargs):
		request.STATS["view_name"] = view.__name__
		return None

	def process_excepton(self,request,exception):
		self.log_request(request,exception)
		return None

	def process_response(self,request,response):
		self.log_request(request)
		return response
	
	def log_request(self,request,exception=None):
		id = base64.b64encode(str(random.random()))
		now = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple()))
		
		try:
			start = request.STATS["start"]
			stop = datetime.datetime.now()
			diff = (stop - start)
			diffsecs = diff.seconds + diff.microseconds/1000000.
		except:
			diffsecs = 0.
			
		try:
			view_name = request.STATS["view_name"]
		except:
			view_name = ""
			
		user_agent = request.META["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]
		user_enc = request.META["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]
		user_lang = request.META["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]
		full_path = request.get_full_path()
		abs_uri = request.build_absolute_uri()
		query_count = len(connection.queries)
		user_id = base64.b64encode(self.__rand_id + request.META["REMOTE_ADDR"])
		
		if exception == None:
			exc_msg = ""
		else:
			exc_msg = str(exception)
		
		xml_dict = {"timestamp":now,
				    "user_id":user_id,
				    "duration":diffsecs,
				    "view":view_name,
				    "http_user_agent":user_agent,
				    "http_accept_encoding":user_enc,
				    "http_accept_language":user_lang,
				    "full_path":full_path,
				    "absolute_uri":abs_uri,
				    "query_count":query_count,
				    "exception":exc_msg,
				    }
		#create xml
		self.lock.acquire()
		log = self.xmldoc.createElement("log")
		log.setAttribute("id",id)
		for k in xml_dict:
			e = self.xmldoc.createElement(k)
			v = self.xmldoc.createTextNode(str(xml_dict[k]))
			e.appendChild(v)
			log.appendChild(e)
		self.logs.appendChild(log)			
		self.lock.release()			
		
				
	def run(self):
		while(True):
			try:
                                #it's bedtime now!
				time.sleep(self.time)
				self.lock.acquire()
				#write xml to file
				self.xmldoc.writexml(self.logfile,indent="\t", addindent="\t", newl="\n")
				#flush and close file
				self.logfile.flush()
				self.logfile.close()
				#create new empty xml-document
				self.xmldoc = Document()
				self.logs = self.xmldoc.createElement("logs")
				self.xmldoc.appendChild(self.logs)
				#create new empty log-file
				oldfilename = self.logfile.name
				fname = base64.b64encode(str(random.random())) + ".xml"
				self.logfile = open(os.path.join(self.logdir, fname), "w", self.buffer)
				#finished writing
				self.lock.release()
				#gzip old file and delete the old xml-file
				r_file = open(oldfilename, 'r')
				w_file = gzip.GzipFile(oldfilename + '.gz', 'w', 9)
				w_file.write(r_file.read())
				w_file.flush()
				w_file.close()
				r_file.close()
				os.unlink(oldfilename)
			except Exception, e:
				if self.lock.locked():
					self.lock.release()
				break