just showing off, don't merge this!

githubnetwork/middleware.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
+from githubnetwork.models import GHUser
+
+
+def get_github_user(request):
+    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
+        return None
+    return GHUser.objects.get(user=request.user)
+
+
+class GithubUserMiddleware(object):
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        request.gh_user = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_github_user(request))
+

githubnetwork/views.py

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+from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
+from django.http import HttpResponseBadRequest, HttpResponse
+from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
+from django.template.context import RequestContext
+from django.utils import simplejson
+
+@login_required
+def me(request):
+    context = RequestContext(request)
+    context['followers'] = simplejson.dumps([{'name': unicode(follower), 'group': 2} for follower in request.gh_user.following.all()])
+    return render_to_response('graph.html', context)
+
+@login_required
+def get_user_followers(request):
+    name = request.GET.get('user', None)
+    if not name:
+        raise HttpResponseBadRequest()
+    names = simplejson.dumps([user['login'] for user in request.github.get_iter('users/%s/followers' % name)])
+    return HttpResponse(names, content_type='application/json')