logging POST data for under Django 1.2

middleware.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
import logging
import logging.handlers
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils import simplejson as json


class POSTScanningMiddleware(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.logger = logging.getLogger('postlog')
        handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
            os.path.join(settings.LOG_DIR, 'post.log'), maxBytes=100000000, backupCount=5)
        formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s')
        handler.setFormatter(formatter)
        self.logger.propagate = False
        self.logger.addHandler(handler)

    def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
        if request.method == 'POST':
            data = {
                'PATH': request.path_info,
                'POST': request.POST,
                'META': {
                    'REMOTE_ADDR': request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', ''),
                    'HTTP_REFERER': request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER', ''),
                    'HTTP_USER_AGENT': request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT', ''),
                }
            }
            self.logger.info(json.dumps(data))
        return None