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simpleauth 0.1.2

A simple auth handler for Google App Engine supporting OAuth 1.0a, 2.0 and OpenID

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Simple authentication wrapper for an Google App Engine app
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Supported specs:
  - OAuth 2.0
  - OAuth 1.0(a)
  - OpenID

Supported providers out of the box:
  - Google (OAuth 2.0)
  - Facebook (OAuth 2.0)
  - Windows Live (OAuth 2.0)
  - Twitter (OAuth 1.0a)
  - LinkedIn (OAuth 1.0a)
  - OpenID, using App Engine users module API

Dependencies:
  - python-oauth2. This is actually a library implementing OAuth 1.0 spec.
  - httplib2 (as a dependency of python-oauth2)
  - lxml (e.g. LinkedIn user profile data parsing)

Getting Started
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1. Install the library on your local Mac/PC with one of:
  a. "easy_install -U simpleauth"
  b. "pip install simpleauth"
  c. clone the source repo, e.g. "git clone git://github.com/crhym3/simpleauth.git"

2. Place the subdir called "simpleauth" into your app root.

3. You'll also need to get python-oauth2 (pip install oauth2)
   and httplib2 (http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/)

3. Create a request handler by subclassing SimpleAuthHandler, e.g.

   class AuthHandler(SomeBaseRequestHandler, SimpleAuthHandler):
     """Authentication handler for all kinds of auth."""

     def _on_signin(self, data, auth_info, provider):
       """Callback whenever a new or existing user is logging in.
       data is a user info dictionary.
       auth_info contains access token or oauth token and secret.

       See what's in it with logging.info(data, auth_info)
       """

       auth_id = '%s:%s' % (provider, data['id'])

       # 1. check whether user exist, e.g.
       #    User.get_by_auth_id(auth_id)
       #
       # 2. create a new user if it doesn't
       #    User(**data).put()
       #
       # 3. sign in the user
       #    self.session['_user_id'] = auth_id
       #
       # 4. redirect somewhere, e.g. self.redirect('/profile')
       #
       # See more on how to work the above steps here:
       # http://webapp-improved.appspot.com/api/webapp2_extras/auth.html
       # http://code.google.com/p/webapp-improved/issues/detail?id=20


     def logout(self):
       self.auth.unset_session()
       self.redirect('/')

     def _callback_uri_for(self, provider):
       return self.uri_for('auth_callback', provider=provider, _full=True)

     def _get_consumer_info_for(self, provider):
       """Should return a tuple (key, secret) for auth init requests.
       For OAuth 2.0 you should also return a scope, e.g.
       ('my app id', 'my app secret', 'email,user_about_me')

       The scope depens solely on the provider.
       See example/secrets.py.template
       """
       return secrets.AUTH_CONFIG[provider]

Note that SimpleAuthHandler isn't a real request handler. It's up to you.
For instance, SomeBaseRequestHandler could be webapp2.RequestHandler.

4. Add routing so that '/auth/PROVIDER', '/auth/PROVIDER/callback' and '/logout' requests
   go to your AuthHandler.

   For instance, in webapp2 you could do:

   # Map URLs to handlers
   routes = [
     Route('/auth/<provider>',
       handler='handlers.AuthHandler:_simple_auth', name='auth_login'),
     Route('/auth/<provider>/callback',
       handler='handlers.AuthHandler:_auth_callback', name='auth_callback'),
     Route('/logout',
       handler='handlers.AuthHandler:logout', name='logout')
   ]

5. That's it. See a sample app in the example dir.
   To run the example app, copy example/secrets.py.template into example/secrets.py
   and start the app locally by executing run.sh
 
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