Move ObjectChange creation into signal receivers

netbox/extras/middleware.py

@@ -1,64 +1,9 @@
-import random
-import threading
 import uuid
-from copy import deepcopy
-from datetime import timedelta
 
-from django.conf import settings
+from django.db.models.signals import m2m_changed, pre_delete, post_save
-from django.contrib import messages
-from django.db.models.signals import pre_delete, post_save
-from django.utils import timezone
-from django_prometheus.models import model_deletes, model_inserts, model_updates
-from redis.exceptions import RedisError
 
-from extras.utils import is_taggable
+from utilities.utils import curry
-from utilities.api import is_api_request
+from .signals import _handle_changed_object, _handle_deleted_object
-from utilities.querysets import DummyQuerySet
-from .choices import ObjectChangeActionChoices
-from .models import ObjectChange
-from .signals import purge_changelog
-from .webhooks import enqueue_webhooks
-
-_thread_locals = threading.local()
-
-
-def handle_changed_object(sender, instance, **kwargs):
-    """
-    Fires when an object is created or updated.
-    """
-    # Queue the object for processing once the request completes
-    action = ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_CREATE if kwargs['created'] else ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE
-    _thread_locals.changed_objects.append(
-        (instance, action)
-    )
-
-
-def handle_deleted_object(sender, instance, **kwargs):
-    """
-    Fires when an object is deleted.
-    """
-    # Cache custom fields prior to copying the instance
-    if hasattr(instance, 'cache_custom_fields'):
-        instance.cache_custom_fields()
-
-    # Create a copy of the object being deleted
-    copy = deepcopy(instance)
-
-    # Preserve tags
-    if is_taggable(instance):
-        copy.tags = DummyQuerySet(instance.tags.all())
-
-    # Queue the copy of the object for processing once the request completes
-    _thread_locals.changed_objects.append(
-        (copy, ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_DELETE)
-    )
-
-
-def purge_objectchange_cache(sender, **kwargs):
-    """
-    Delete any queued object changes waiting to be written.
-    """
-    _thread_locals.changed_objects = []
 
 
 class ObjectChangeMiddleware(object):
@@ -80,73 +25,35 @@ class ObjectChangeMiddleware(object):
 
     def __call__(self, request):
 
-        # Initialize an empty list to cache objects being saved.
-        _thread_locals.changed_objects = []
-
         # Assign a random unique ID to the request. This will be used to associate multiple object changes made during
         # the same request.
         request.id = uuid.uuid4()
 
+        # Curry signals receivers to pass the current request
+        handle_changed_object = curry(_handle_changed_object, request)
+        handle_deleted_object = curry(_handle_deleted_object, request)
+
         # Connect our receivers to the post_save and post_delete signals.
         post_save.connect(handle_changed_object, dispatch_uid='handle_changed_object')
+        m2m_changed.connect(handle_changed_object, dispatch_uid='handle_changed_object')
         pre_delete.connect(handle_deleted_object, dispatch_uid='handle_deleted_object')
 
-        # Provide a hook for purging the change cache
-        purge_changelog.connect(purge_objectchange_cache)
-
         # Process the request
         response = self.get_response(request)
 
-        # If the change cache is empty, there's nothing more we need to do.
+        # Disconnect change logging signals. This is necessary to avoid recording any errant
-        if not _thread_locals.changed_objects:
+        # changes during test cleanup.
-            return response
-
-        # Disconnect our receivers from the post_save and post_delete signals.
         post_save.disconnect(handle_changed_object, dispatch_uid='handle_changed_object')
+        m2m_changed.disconnect(handle_changed_object, dispatch_uid='handle_changed_object')
         pre_delete.disconnect(handle_deleted_object, dispatch_uid='handle_deleted_object')
 
-        # Create records for any cached objects that were changed.
-        redis_failed = False
-        for instance, action in _thread_locals.changed_objects:
-
-            # Refresh cached custom field values
-            if action in [ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_CREATE, ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE]:
-                if hasattr(instance, 'cache_custom_fields'):
-                    instance.cache_custom_fields()
-
-            # Record an ObjectChange if applicable
-            if hasattr(instance, 'to_objectchange'):
-                objectchange = instance.to_objectchange(action)
-                objectchange.user = request.user
-                objectchange.request_id = request.id
-                objectchange.save()
-
-            # Enqueue webhooks
-            try:
-                enqueue_webhooks(instance, request.user, request.id, action)
-            except RedisError as e:
-                if not redis_failed and not is_api_request(request):
-                    messages.error(
-                        request,
-                        "There was an error processing webhooks for this request. Check that the Redis service is "
-                        "running and reachable. The full error details were: {}".format(e)
-                    )
-                    redis_failed = True
-
-            # Increment metric counters
-            if action == ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_CREATE:
-                model_inserts.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
-            elif action == ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE:
-                model_updates.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
-            elif action == ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_DELETE:
-                model_deletes.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
-
-        # Housekeeping: 1% chance of clearing out expired ObjectChanges. This applies only to requests which result in
-        # one or more changes being logged.
-        if settings.CHANGELOG_RETENTION and random.randint(1, 100) == 1:
-            cutoff = timezone.now() - timedelta(days=settings.CHANGELOG_RETENTION)
-            purged_count, _ = ObjectChange.objects.filter(
-                time__lt=cutoff
-            ).delete()
-
         return response
+
+        # TODO: Put this somewhere
+        # # Housekeeping: 1% chance of clearing out expired ObjectChanges. This applies only to requests which result in
+        # # one or more changes being logged.
+        # if settings.CHANGELOG_RETENTION and random.randint(1, 100) == 1:
+        #     cutoff = timezone.now() - timedelta(days=settings.CHANGELOG_RETENTION)
+        #     purged_count, _ = ObjectChange.objects.filter(
+        #         time__lt=cutoff
+        #     ).delete()

netbox/extras/scripts.py

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ from ipam.validators import MaxPrefixLengthValidator, MinPrefixLengthValidator,
 from utilities.exceptions import AbortTransaction
 from utilities.forms import DynamicModelChoiceField, DynamicModelMultipleChoiceField
 from .forms import ScriptForm
-from .signals import purge_changelog
 
 __all__ = [
     'BaseScript',
@@ -465,7 +464,6 @@ def run_script(data, request, commit=True, *args, **kwargs):
 
         if not commit:
             # Delete all pending changelog entries
-            purge_changelog.send(Script)
             script.log_info(
                 "Database changes have been reverted automatically."
             )

netbox/extras/signals.py

@@ -1,7 +1,68 @@
 from cacheops.signals import cache_invalidated, cache_read
-from django.dispatch import Signal
+from django_prometheus.models import model_deletes, model_inserts, model_updates
 from prometheus_client import Counter
 
+from .choices import ObjectChangeActionChoices
+from .webhooks import enqueue_webhooks
+
+
+#
+# Change logging/webhooks
+#
+
+def _handle_changed_object(request, sender, instance, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Fires when an object is created or updated.
+    """
+    # Queue the object for processing once the request completes
+    if kwargs.get('created'):
+        action = ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_CREATE
+    elif 'created' in kwargs:
+        action = ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE
+    elif kwargs.get('action') in ['post_add', 'post_remove'] and kwargs['pk_set']:
+        # m2m_changed with objects added or removed
+        action = ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE
+    else:
+        return
+
+    # Cache any custom field values to ensure they are captured during serialization
+    if hasattr(instance, 'cache_custom_fields'):
+        instance.cache_custom_fields()
+
+    # Record an ObjectChange if applicable
+    if hasattr(instance, 'to_objectchange'):
+        objectchange = instance.to_objectchange(action)
+        objectchange.user = request.user
+        objectchange.request_id = request.id
+        objectchange.save()
+
+    # Enqueue webhooks
+    enqueue_webhooks(instance, request.user, request.id, action)
+
+    # Increment metric counters
+    if action == ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_CREATE:
+        model_inserts.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
+    elif action == ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_UPDATE:
+        model_updates.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
+
+
+def _handle_deleted_object(request, sender, instance, **kwargs):
+    """
+    Fires when an object is deleted.
+    """
+    # Record an ObjectChange if applicable
+    if hasattr(instance, 'to_objectchange'):
+        objectchange = instance.to_objectchange(ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_DELETE)
+        objectchange.user = request.user
+        objectchange.request_id = request.id
+        objectchange.save()
+
+    # Enqueue webhooks
+    enqueue_webhooks(instance, request.user, request.id, ObjectChangeActionChoices.ACTION_DELETE)
+
+    # Increment metric counters
+    model_deletes.labels(instance._meta.model_name).inc()
+
 
 #
 # Caching
@@ -25,10 +86,3 @@ def cache_invalidated_collector(sender, obj_dict, **kwargs):
 
 cache_read.connect(cache_read_collector)
 cache_invalidated.connect(cache_invalidated_collector)
-
-
-#
-# Change logging
-#
-
-purge_changelog = Signal()

netbox/extras/utils.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import collections
 from django.db.models import Q
 from django.utils.deconstruct import deconstructible
 from taggit.managers import _TaggableManager
-from utilities.querysets import DummyQuerySet
 
 from extras.constants import EXTRAS_FEATURES
 from extras.registry import registry
@@ -16,9 +15,6 @@ def is_taggable(obj):
     if hasattr(obj, 'tags'):
         if issubclass(obj.tags.__class__, _TaggableManager):
             return True
-        # TaggableManager has been replaced with a DummyQuerySet prior to object deletion
-        if isinstance(obj.tags, DummyQuerySet):
-            return True
     return False
 
 

netbox/utilities/querysets.py

@@ -3,20 +3,6 @@ from django.db.models import Q, QuerySet
 from utilities.permissions import permission_is_exempt
 
 
-class DummyQuerySet:
-    """
-    A fake QuerySet that can be used to cache relationships to objects that have been deleted.
-    """
-    def __init__(self, queryset):
-        self._cache = [obj for obj in queryset.all()]
-
-    def __iter__(self):
-        return iter(self._cache)
-
-    def all(self):
-        return self._cache
-
-
 class RestrictedQuerySet(QuerySet):
 
     def restrict(self, user, action='view'):

netbox/utilities/utils.py

@@ -276,6 +276,13 @@ def flatten_dict(d, prefix='', separator='.'):
     return ret
 
 
+# Taken from django.utils.functional (<3.0)
+def curry(_curried_func, *args, **kwargs):
+    def _curried(*moreargs, **morekwargs):
+        return _curried_func(*args, *moreargs, **{**kwargs, **morekwargs})
+    return _curried
+
+
 #
 # Fake request object
 #