On Jan 14, 7:30 pm, E17 <eugene.naume...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > in my Django application I need a way to track logged users presence. > > User gets an 'online' status when he/she logs in and 'offline' status > when logs out, it's pretty simple. But what is the best way to handle > non-logged-out sessions? One need to periodically check all sessions > on last activity age and make some decisions depending on that age - > i.e. set user status to 'away' of 'offline'. > > I wouldn't like to use cron, as running full python execution stack is > quite expensive in terms of performance. For the same reason I don't > like to run this code on [every] request handlers. > > Seems to me like better solution would be to use some outer deamon or > deamon-like proces that would handle this functionality. I've googled > out at least 2 solutions for that - django-cron (http:// > code.google.com/p/django-cron/) and a standalone Django Cron Jobs > Daemon (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1348/). > > What is a better way or I missed something else? > > Thank you
Use some middleware to keep track of the last time you see a logged in user. BN
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