Initial working version with minor bugs

django_project/middleware.py

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+from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.auth import login
+from accounts.models import CustomUser
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
+class AutoLoginMiddleware:
+    """
+    In development, automatically logs in as a predefined user if the request is anonymous.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, get_response):
+        self.get_response = get_response
+
+    def __call__(self, request):
+        # Only perform auto-login if in DEBUG mode and user is not authenticated.
+        if settings.DEBUG and not request.user.is_authenticated:
+            user = CustomUser.objects.get(email='rob@badblocks.email')
+            login(request, user, backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend')
+
+        response = self.get_response(request)
+        return response