[PATCH v4 2/4] Include the responsible actor in applicable events

Johan Herland johan at herland.net
Sun Dec 1 12:49:53 AEDT 2019


We want to use the events as an audit log. An important part of this is
recording _who_ made the changes that the events represent.

To accomplish this, we need to know the current user (aka. request.user)
at the point where we create the Event instance. Event creation is
currently triggered by signals, but neither the signal handlers, nor the
model classes themselves have easy access to request.user.

For some Patch-based events (patch-state-changed, patch-delegated), we
can do the following hack: The relevant events are created in signal
handlers that are all hooked up to either the pre_save or post_save
signals sent by Patch.save(). But before calling Patch.save(),
Patchwork must naturally query Patch.is_editable() to ascertain whether
the patch can in fact be changed by the current user. Thus, we only
need a way to communicate the current user from Patch.is_editable()
to the signal handlers that create the resulting Events. The Patch
object itself is available in both places, so we simply add an
._edited_by attribute to the instance (which fortunately is not
detected as a persistent db field by Django).

For the check-created event the current user always happens to be the
same as the .user field recorded in the Check object itself.

For the other Patch-based events (patch-created, patch-completed, and
series-completed), although they are also triggered by Patch.save(),
they are triggered as a result of incoming emails, hence have no real
actor as such, so we simply leave the actor as None/NULL. The same
argumen also applies to the cover-created and series-created events.

Closes: #73
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan at herland.net>
---
 patchwork/models.py            | 6 +++++-
 patchwork/signals.py           | 3 +++
 patchwork/tests/test_events.py | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/patchwork/models.py b/patchwork/models.py
index b4f3bef..7f0efd4 100644
--- a/patchwork/models.py
+++ b/patchwork/models.py
@@ -498,9 +498,13 @@ class Patch(Submission):
             return False
 
         if user in [self.submitter.user, self.delegate]:
+            self._edited_by = user
             return True
 
-        return self.project.is_editable(user)
+        if self.project.is_editable(user):
+            self._edited_by = user
+            return True
+        return False
 
     @property
     def combined_check_state(self):
diff --git a/patchwork/signals.py b/patchwork/signals.py
index 666199b..73ddfa5 100644
--- a/patchwork/signals.py
+++ b/patchwork/signals.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ def create_patch_state_changed_event(sender, instance, raw, **kwargs):
         return Event.objects.create(
             category=Event.CATEGORY_PATCH_STATE_CHANGED,
             project=patch.project,
+            actor=getattr(patch, '_edited_by', None),
             patch=patch,
             previous_state=before,
             current_state=after)
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ def create_patch_delegated_event(sender, instance, raw, **kwargs):
         return Event.objects.create(
             category=Event.CATEGORY_PATCH_DELEGATED,
             project=patch.project,
+            actor=getattr(patch, '_edited_by', None),
             patch=patch,
             previous_delegate=before,
             current_delegate=after)
@@ -184,6 +186,7 @@ def create_check_created_event(sender, instance, created, raw, **kwargs):
         return Event.objects.create(
             category=Event.CATEGORY_CHECK_CREATED,
             project=check.patch.project,
+            actor=check.user,
             patch=check.patch,
             created_check=check)
 
diff --git a/patchwork/tests/test_events.py b/patchwork/tests/test_events.py
index e5c40b5..415237f 100644
--- a/patchwork/tests/test_events.py
+++ b/patchwork/tests/test_events.py
@@ -110,8 +110,10 @@ class PatchChangedTest(_BaseTestCase):
         patch = utils.create_patch(series=None)
         old_state = patch.state
         new_state = utils.create_state()
+        actor = utils.create_maintainer(project=patch.project)
 
         patch.state = new_state
+        self.assertTrue(patch.is_editable(actor))
         patch.save()
 
         events = _get_events(patch=patch)
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ class PatchChangedTest(_BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(events[1].category,
                          Event.CATEGORY_PATCH_STATE_CHANGED)
         self.assertEqual(events[1].project, patch.project)
+        self.assertEqual(events[1].actor, actor)
         self.assertEventFields(events[1], previous_state=old_state,
                                current_state=new_state)
 
@@ -127,10 +130,12 @@ class PatchChangedTest(_BaseTestCase):
         # purposefully setting series to None to minimize additional events
         patch = utils.create_patch(series=None)
         delegate_a = utils.create_user()
+        actor = utils.create_maintainer(project=patch.project)
 
         # None -> Delegate A
 
         patch.delegate = delegate_a
+        self.assertTrue(patch.is_editable(actor))
         patch.save()
 
         events = _get_events(patch=patch)
@@ -139,6 +144,7 @@ class PatchChangedTest(_BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(events[1].category,
                          Event.CATEGORY_PATCH_DELEGATED)
         self.assertEqual(events[1].project, patch.project)
+        self.assertEqual(events[1].actor, actor)
         self.assertEventFields(events[1], current_delegate=delegate_a)
 
         delegate_b = utils.create_user()
@@ -175,6 +181,7 @@ class CheckCreatedTest(_BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(events.count(), 1)
         self.assertEqual(events[0].category, Event.CATEGORY_CHECK_CREATED)
         self.assertEqual(events[0].project, check.patch.project)
+        self.assertEqual(events[0].actor, check.user)
         self.assertEventFields(events[0])
 
 
-- 
2.19.2



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