Revert "kind of a solution"

This reverts commit f4c6c084a6.

src/registrar/config/settings.py

@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     "waffle.middleware.WaffleMiddleware",
     "registrar.registrar_middleware.CheckUserProfileMiddleware",
     "registrar.registrar_middleware.CheckPortfolioMiddleware",
-    "registrar.registrar_middleware.NewRequestMiddleware"
 ]
 
 # application object used by Django's built-in servers (e.g. `runserver`)

src/registrar/registrar_middleware.py

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ from django.urls import reverse
 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
 from registrar.models import User
 from waffle.decorators import flag_is_active
-from django.urls import resolve, Resolver404
-from registrar.config.urls import DOMAIN_REQUEST_NAMESPACE
+
 from registrar.models.utility.generic_helper import replace_url_queryparams
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -170,40 +169,3 @@ class CheckPortfolioMiddleware:
             request.session["portfolio"] = request.user.get_first_portfolio()
         else:
             request.session["portfolio"] = request.user.get_first_portfolio()
-
-
-class NewRequestMiddleware:
-    def __init__(self, get_response):
-        self.get_response = get_response
-
-    def __call__(self, request):
-        response = self.get_response(request)
-        return response
-    
-    def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
-        if not request.user.is_authenticated:
-            return None
-
-        if request.session.get("new_request") is None:
-            request.session["new_request"] = True
-
-        resolved = resolve(request.path)
-        if request.session.get("new_request") is False:
-            try:
-                resolved = resolve(request.path)
-                # Check if we're in the domain-request namespace.
-                # If not, then a new request is not being made.
-                if resolved.namespace != DOMAIN_REQUEST_NAMESPACE:
-                    request.session["new_request"] = True
-            # URL doesn't match any known pattern.
-            # This shouldn't happen (caught before this), but redundancy is good.
-            except Resolver404:
-                # If you somehow see this log, something must have went very, *very* wrong.
-                # All I can offer in consolidation is this ASCII cat to tend to these hard times:
-                # ⠀ ／l、
-                # （ﾟ､ ｡ ７
-                # ⠀ l、ﾞ ~ヽ
-                #   じしf_, )ノ
-                logger.error("[CRITICAL] NewRequestMiddleware => Could not resolve the request path.")
-
-        return None

src/registrar/views/domain_request.py

@@ -308,13 +308,6 @@ class DomainRequestWizard(DomainRequestWizardPermissionView, TemplateView):
         if current_url == self.EDIT_URL_NAME and "id" in kwargs:
             del self.storage
             self.storage["domain_request_id"] = kwargs["id"]
-        elif self.request.session.get("new_request") is True and current_url != self.NEW_URL_NAME and current_url != "":
-            print(f"what is the url: {current_url} vs type: {type(current_url)}")
-            # Add some popup here that indicates a new request was started...
-            logger.info(f"DomainRequestWizard => user {request.user} was redirected to home (because, etc...)")
-            del self.storage
-            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("home"))
-
 
         # if accessing this class directly, redirect to either to an acknowledgement
         # page or to the first step in the processes (if an edit rather than a new request);
@@ -500,8 +493,10 @@ class DomainRequestWizard(DomainRequestWizardPermissionView, TemplateView):
         return request_step_list(self, self.get_step_enum())
 
     def goto(self, step):
-        # We need to avoid creating a new domain request if the user clicks the back button
-        self.request.session["new_request"] = False
+        if step == "generic_org_type" or step == "portfolio_requesting_entity":
+            # We need to avoid creating a new domain request if the user
+            # clicks the back button
+            self.request.session["new_request"] = False
         self.steps.current = step
         return redirect(reverse(f"{self.URL_NAMESPACE}:{step}"))
 
@@ -529,6 +524,9 @@ class DomainRequestWizard(DomainRequestWizardPermissionView, TemplateView):
         # which button did the user press?
         button: str = request.POST.get("submit_button", "")
 
+        if "new_request" not in request.session:
+            request.session["new_request"] = True
+
         # if user has acknowledged the intro message
         if button == "intro_acknowledge":
             # Split into a function: C901 'DomainRequestWizard.post' is too complex (11)
@@ -566,7 +564,6 @@ class DomainRequestWizard(DomainRequestWizardPermissionView, TemplateView):
     def handle_intro_acknowledge(self, request):
         """If we are starting a new request, clear storage
         and redirect to the first step"""
-        print(f"path info is: {request.path_info}")
         if request.path_info == self.NEW_URL_NAME:
             if self.request.session["new_request"] is True:
                 del self.storage

src/registrar/views/index.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ def index(request):
 
     if request and request.user and request.user.is_authenticated:
         # This controls the creation of a new domain request in the wizard
+        request.session["new_request"] = True
         context["user_domain_count"] = request.user.get_user_domain_ids(request).count()
 
     return render(request, "home.html", context)

src/registrar/views/portfolios.py

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ class PortfolioDomainRequestsView(PortfolioDomainRequestsPermissionView, View):
     template_name = "portfolio_requests.html"
 
     def get(self, request):
+        if self.request.user.is_authenticated:
+            request.session["new_request"] = True
         return render(request, "portfolio_requests.html")
 
 

src/registrar/views/utility/mixins.py

@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ class DomainRequestWizardPermission(PermissionsLoginMixin):
         id = self.kwargs.get("id") if hasattr(self, "kwargs") else None
         if not id:
             domain_request_wizard = self.request.session.get("wizard_domain_request")
-            if domain_request_wizard and self.request.session.get("new_request") is False:
+            if domain_request_wizard:
                 id = domain_request_wizard.get("domain_request_id")
 
         # If no id is provided, we can assume that the user is starting a new request.