Django Rest Framework logger mixin

drf_logger.py

class DRFLoggerMixin(object):
    """
        Allows us to log any incoming request and to know what's in it.

        Usage:

            class MyOwnViewSet(DRFLoggerMixin,
                       mixins.ListModelMixin,
                       …
                       viewsets.GenericViewSet):
                pass

        References:
            http://stackoverflow.com/a/15579198/654755

        Updates:
            https://gist.github.com/Karmak23/2ea1d62ea32edbeed07b
    """

    def initial(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        try:
            data = request.DATA

        except:
            LOGGER.exception('Exception while getting request.DATA')

        else:
            try:
                data = json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True, indent=2)

            except:
                pass

            LOGGER.info(u'%(method)s request on “%(path)s” for %(user)s '
                        u'from %(origin)s (%(useragent)s):\n'
                        u'auth: %(auth)s, authenticators: [\n%(auths)s\n]\n'
                        u'content-type: %(content)s\n'
                        u'data: %(data)s\n'
                        u'files: {\n    %(files)s\n}' % {
                            'method': request.method,
                            'user': request.user.username,
                            'path': request.get_full_path(),
                            'origin': request.META.get('HTTP_HOST', u'Unknown'),
                            'useragent': request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT',
                                                       u'Unknown'),
                            'auth': request.auth,
                            'auths': u'\n    '.join(
                                unicode(x) for x in request.authenticators),
                            'data': data,
                            'files': u'\n    '.join(u'%s: %s' % (k,v)
                                for k,v in sorted(request.FILES.items())),
                            'content': request.content_type,
                            }
                        )

        return super(DRFLoggerMixin, self).initial(request, *args, **kwargs)