added email verification to signup

quest/views.py

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
 from django.db.models import F
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.urls import reverse
-from django.http import HttpResponse
 
 from .models import Quest, DiceRoll, PollOption, PollVote, Page, Post
 from .forms import EditQuestForm, QuestForm, PostForm

signup/jinja2/signup/confirmation_sent.html

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+{% block title %}Email confirmation sent{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+A confirmation email has been sent to {{ user.email }}. Please follow the enclosed instructions to finish creating your account. Be sure to check your spam folder if you do not see the email.
+{% endblock %}

signup/jinja2/signup/confirmed.html

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+{% block title %}Success!{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+Your account has been activated. You may now <a href="{{ url('login:index') }}">login</a>.
+{% endblock %}
+

signup/models.py

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+A table to lookup confirmation codes.
+"""
+from django.db import models
+from django.conf import settings
+
+class Confirmation(models.Model):
+	"""
+	Contains a reference to the user's newly created account
+	and a random string to be emailed to them for them to confirm.
+	"""
+	user = models.ForeignKey(
+		settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
+		on_delete=models.CASCADE
+	)
+	code = models.CharField(max_length=32)

signup/urls.py

@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ from . import views
 app_name = 'signup'
 urlpatterns = [
 	path('', views.index, name='index'),
+	path('verify', views.verify, name='verify'),
 ]

signup/views.py

@@ -3,9 +3,16 @@
 /signup app views.
 """
 # TODO: make unique username validation be case insensitive
+import random
+import string
+
 from django.shortcuts import redirect, render
+from django.core.mail import send_mail
+from django.urls import reverse
+from django.conf import settings
 
 from .forms import SignupForm
+from .models import Confirmation
 
 def index(request):
 	"""
@@ -16,8 +23,58 @@ def index(request):
 	if request.method == 'POST':
 		form = SignupForm(request.POST)
 		if form.is_valid():
-			form.save()
-			return redirect('login:index')
+			user = form.save()
+			confirm = Confirmation(
+				user=user,
+				code=get_code(32)
+			)
+			confirm.save()
+			verify_url = request.build_absolute_uri(reverse('signup:verify'))
+			verify_url = verify_url.replace("http", "https")
+			email_confirmation(confirm, verify_url)
+			return render(request, 'signup/confirmation_sent.html', locals())
 	else:
 		form = SignupForm()
 	return render(request, 'signup/index.html', {'form': form})
+
+
+def get_code(n):
+	"""
+	Helper function to generate n number of psudeo-random ASCII characters.
+	"""
+	chars = []
+	for _ in range(n):
+		chars.append(random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits))
+	return "".join(chars)
+
+
+def email_confirmation(confirm, verify_url):
+	"""
+	Sends out a confirmation to the user.
+	"""
+	message = "Please use the following link to verify your account: "
+	message += verify_url + "?code=" + confirm.code
+	send_mail(
+		"Email verification",
+		message,
+		settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
+		[confirm.user.email],
+	)
+
+
+def verify(request):
+	"""
+	Verifies and activates the user's account.
+	"""
+	code = request.GET.get("code")
+	if not code:
+		return redirect('homepage:index')
+	try:
+		confirm = Confirmation.objects.get(code=code)
+	except Confirmation.DoesNotExist:
+		return redirect('homepage:index')
+	user = confirm.user
+	user.is_active = True
+	user.save()
+	confirm.delete()
+	return render(request, 'signup/confirmed.html', locals())

titivillus/settings.py

@@ -168,3 +168,11 @@ TAGGIT_CASE_INSENSITIVE = True
 
 # Server user id
 SERVER_USER_ID = 3
+
+DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = "scribe@steelbea.me"
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
+EMAIL_HOST = "mail.steelbea.me"
+EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = titivillus.settings_secret.EMAIL_KEY
+EMAIL_HOST_USER = "scribe@steelbea.me"
+EMAIL_PORT = 587
+EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

todo

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 New Features:
-Notifications
 Front page to show new quests
 Webm posting
 (you) counter
@@ -15,3 +14,5 @@ Total voters per poll
 Chat archives
 Adjust quote preview postioning
 Better API
+Reserve/prevent certain usernames eg. Admin, Administrator, etc.
+Search from front page doesn't work

user/migrations/0004_auto_20190118_1251.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.1.1 on 2019-01-18 17:51
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('user', '0003_user_subscriptions'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='user',
+            name='is_active',
+            field=models.BooleanField(default=False),
+        ),
+    ]

user/models.py

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ class User(AbstractUser):
 			+ "the conversation."
 	)
 	subscriptions = models.ManyToManyField(Quest)
+	is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
 
 	def get_full_name(self):
 		return None