AxesBackend requires a request as an argument to authenticate

Question

I need to add a restriction on account login attempts to my django site, I found the popular django-axes library, followed the documentation and code examples, but when I try to log in to my account (whether the password is correct or not) I get the error AxesBackend requires a request as an argument to authenticate even though my code follows the instructions exactly and I'm passing the request. Here is all the code that is somehow related to this:

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'axes',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'axes.middleware.AxesMiddleware',
]

AXES_FAILURE_LIMIT =  4
AXES_RESET_ON_SUCCESS = True
AXES_COOLOFF_TIME = 1

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
   'axes.backends.AxesBackend', # Axes must be first
   'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
]

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "users.User"
LOGIN_URL = "/user/login/"

views.py

from django.contrib import auth, messages

def login(request):

    if request.method == "POST":
        form = UserLoginForm(data=request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            username = request.POST["username"]
            password = request.POST["password"]
            user = auth.authenticate(request=request, username=username, password=password)

            if user:
                auth.login(request, user)

                redirect_page = request.POST.get("next", None)

                if redirect_page and redirect_page != reverse("user:logout"):
                    return HttpResponseRedirect(request.POST.get("next"))

                return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("main:main_page"))
    else:

        form = UserLoginForm()

    context = {"title": "Вход", "form": form}

    return render(request, "users/login.html", context)

forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import (
    AuthenticationForm,
    UserCreationForm,
    UserChangeForm,
)
from users.models import User


class UserLoginForm(AuthenticationForm):

    username = forms.CharField()
    password = forms.CharField()

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ["username", "password"]

versions libs

Django==5.0.4
django-axes==6.5.2

I would be very grateful for your help!

Full Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 55, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 197, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\bismuth\users\views.py", line 17, in login
    if form.is_valid():
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\forms\forms.py", line 197, in is_valid    
    return self.is_bound and not self.errors
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\forms\forms.py", line 192, in errors      
    self.full_clean()
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\forms\forms.py", line 328, in full_clean  
    self._clean_form()
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\forms\forms.py", line 349, in _clean_form 
    cleaned_data = self.clean()
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\forms.py", line 250, in clean
    self.user_cache = authenticate(
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\views\decorators\debug.py", line 75, in sensitive_variables_wrapper
    return func(*func_args, **func_kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\__init__.py", line 79, in authenticate
    user = backend.authenticate(request, **credentials)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\axes\helpers.py", line 615, in inner
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\danii\OneDrive\Рабочий стол\coins\Project Bismuth\venv\Lib\site-packages\axes\backends.py", line 46, in authenticate      
    raise AxesBackendRequestParameterRequired(
axes.exceptions.AxesBackendRequestParameterRequired: AxesBackend requires a request as an argument to authenticate
[07/Oct/2024 10:27:42] "POST /user/login/ HTTP/1.1" 500 125895

Can you share the full traceback, so with the error lines above the one you posted? — willeM_ Van Onsem
– willeM_ Van Onsem, Commented Oct 6, 2024 at 13:21
@willeM_ VanOnsem Of course! Added a full Traceback to the body of the question — DANIRU
– DANIRU, Commented Oct 7, 2024 at 3:33
Yes: ` from django import forms from django.contrib.auth.forms import ( AuthenticationForm, UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm, ) from users.models import User class UserLoginForm(AuthenticationForm): username = forms.CharField() password = forms.CharField() class Meta: model = User fields = ["username", "password"] ` — DANIRU
– DANIRU, Commented Oct 7, 2024 at 14:15

willeM_ Van Onsem · Accepted Answer · 2024-10-07 14:20:26Z

1

The reason it fails is because your UserLoginForm already tries to authenticate(), and that fails because it has no request object.

The good news is: we can let the form handle it with the request, like:

from django.urls import redirect


def login(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UserLoginForm(request=request, data=request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            user = form.get_user()
            if user:
                auth.login(request, user)
                redirect_page = request.POST.get('next', None)

                if redirect_page and redirect_page != reverse('user:logout'):
                    return HttpResponseRedirect(request.POST.get('next'))
                return redirect('main:main_page')
    else:
        form = UserLoginForm()
    context = {'title': 'Вход', 'form': form}
    return render(request, 'users/login.html', context)

answered Oct 7, 2024 at 14:20

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DANIRU Over a year ago

Thank you very much! You helped me a lot and I'm glad that such a pro like you did it

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