Ignore GUID generation if url is in IGNORE_REGEX_URLS

demoproj/urls.py

@@ -15,14 +15,15 @@
 """
 from django.urls import path
 
-from demoproj.views.sync_views import index_view, no_guid, rest_view
+from demoproj.views.sync_views import index_view, no_guid, rest_view, no_guid_regex
 from demoproj.views.async_views import index_view as asgi_index_view
 from demoproj.views.async_views import django_guid_api_usage
 
 urlpatterns = [
     path('', index_view, name='index'),
     path('api', rest_view, name='drf'),
     path('no-guid', no_guid, name='no_guid'),
+    path('no-guid-regex', no_guid_regex, name='no_guid_regex'),
     path('asgi', asgi_index_view, name='asgi_index'),
     path('api-usage', django_guid_api_usage, name='django_guid_api_usage'),
 ]

demoproj/views/sync_views.py

@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ def no_guid(request: 'HttpRequest') -> JsonResponse:
     return JsonResponse({'detail': f'It worked also! Useless function response is {useless_response}'})
 
 
+def no_guid_regex(request: 'HttpRequest') -> JsonResponse:
+    """
+    Example view with a URL in the IGNORE_REGEX_URLS list - no GUID will be in these logs
+    """
+    logger.info('This log message should NOT have a GUID - the URL is in IGNORE_REGEX_URLS')
+    useless_response = useless_function()
+    return JsonResponse({'detail': f'It worked also! Useless function response is {useless_response}'})
+
+
 @api_view(('GET',))
 def rest_view(request: 'Request') -> Response:
     """

django_guid/config.py

@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ def expose_header(self) -> bool:
     def ignore_urls(self) -> List[str]:
         return list({url.strip('/') for url in self.settings.get('IGNORE_URLS', [])})
 
+    @property
+    def ignore_regex_urls(self) -> List[str]:
+        return list({url.strip('/') for url in self.settings.get('IGNORE_REGEX_URLS', [])})
+
     @property
     def validate_guid(self) -> bool:
         return self.settings.get('VALIDATE_GUID', True)

django_guid/middleware.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 
 from django_guid.context import guid
-from django_guid.utils import get_id_from_header, ignored_url
+from django_guid.utils import get_id_from_header, ignored_url, ignored_regex_url
 
 try:
     from django.utils.decorators import sync_and_async_middleware
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def process_incoming_request(request: 'HttpRequest') -> None:
     Processes an incoming request. This function is called before the view and later middleware.
     Same logic for both async and sync views.
     """
-    if not ignored_url(request=request):
+    if (not ignored_url(request=request)) and (not ignored_regex_url(request=request)):
         # Process request and store the GUID in a contextvar
         guid.set(get_id_from_header(request))
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def process_outgoing_request(response: 'HttpResponse', request: 'HttpRequest') -
     """
     Process an outgoing request. This function is called after the view and before later middleware.
     """
-    if not ignored_url(request=request):
+    if (not ignored_url(request=request)) and (not ignored_regex_url(request=request)):
         if settings.return_header:
             response[settings.guid_header_name] = guid.get()  # Adds the GUID to the response header
             if settings.expose_header:

django_guid/utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import re
 import uuid
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union
 
@@ -91,3 +92,20 @@ def validate_guid(original_guid: str) -> bool:
         return bool(uuid.UUID(original_guid, version=4).hex)
     except ValueError:
         return False
+
+
+def ignored_regex_url(request: Union['HttpRequest', 'HttpResponse']) -> bool:
+    """
+    Support for Regex added
+    Checks if the current URL is defined in the `IGNORE_REGEX_URLS` setting.
+
+    :return: Boolean
+    """
+    endpoint = request.path.strip('/')
+
+    IGNORE_URLS = []
+    for url in settings.ignore_regex_urls:
+        url_regex = url.replace('*', r'[\s\S]*')  # noqa
+        url_regex = '^' + url_regex + '$'
+        IGNORE_URLS.append(re.compile(url_regex))
+    return any(url.match(endpoint) for url in IGNORE_URLS)

tests/functional/test_sync_middleware.py

@@ -307,3 +307,27 @@ def test_url_ignored(client, caplog):
             ('Received signal `request_finished`, clearing guid', None),
         ]
         assert [(x.message, x.correlation_id) for x in caplog.records] == expected
+
+
+def test_url_ignored_with_regex(client, caplog, monkeypatch):
+    """
+    Test that a URL specified in IGNORE_URLS is ignored.
+    :param client: Django client
+    :param caplog: Caplog fixture
+    """
+    from django.conf import settings as django_settings
+
+    mocked_settings = deepcopy(django_settings.DJANGO_GUID)
+    mocked_settings['IGNORE_REGEX_URLS'] = {'no-*'}
+    with override_settings(DJANGO_GUID=mocked_settings):
+        settings = Settings()
+        monkeypatch.setattr('django_guid.utils.settings', settings)
+        client.get('/no-guid-regex', **{'HTTP_Correlation-ID': 'bad-guid'})
+        # No log message should have a GUID, aka `None` on index 1.
+        expected = [
+            ('sync middleware called', None),
+            ('This log message should NOT have a GUID - the URL is in IGNORE_REGEX_URLS', None),
+            ('Some warning in a function', None),
+            ('Received signal `request_finished`, clearing guid', None),
+        ]
+        assert [(x.message, x.correlation_id) for x in caplog.records] == expected