Social Auth GSIS

Python Social Auth backend for the OAuth 2.0 for GSIS, intended for use in Django applications.

Requirements

• Python 3.8, or newer
• Django 3.2, or newer

Installation

Install the social-auth-gsis from PyPI using your favorite package manager.

pip

pipi install social-auth-gsis

Poetry

poetry add social-auth-gsis

Usage

To get the GSIS authentication package working with a Django application, both settings and URLs need to be configured.

Settings

The best place to get started with integrating Social Auth GSIS in a Django project is the settings.

First, the social_django app needs to be added in the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your Django application:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...the rest of installed apps
    "social_django",
]

Next, social_django.middleware.SocialAuthExceptionMiddleware needs to be included in MIDDELWARE, right below the django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...the rest of middleware
    "django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware",
    "social_django.middleware.SocialAuthExceptionMiddleware",
]

In order to only allow creation of users through the social auth pipeline, the SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE Django Social Auth setting needs to be set to the following value:

SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = (
    "social_core.pipeline.social_auth.social_details",
    "social_core.pipeline.social_auth.social_uid",
    "social_core.pipeline.social_auth.auth_allowed",
    "social_auth_gsis.pipeline.social_auth.social_user",
    "social_core.pipeline.social_auth.associate_user",
    "social_core.pipeline.social_auth.load_extra_data",
    "social_core.pipeline.user.user_details",
)

To configure the credentials and redirect URLs of a Social Auth GSIS backend the appropriate settings need to be set as well:

SOCIAL_AUTH_GSIS_KEY = "oauth2_client_key"
SOCIAL_AUTH_GSIS_SECRET = "oauth2_client_secret"
SOCIAL_AUTH_GSIS_REDIRECT_URL = "https://yourapp.local/authorize/gsis/"

Finally, the intended backends should be included in the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    "social_auth_gsis.backends.GSISOAuth2",
    # ...the rest of backends included
)

URLs

The URLs of Django Social Auth are required to be included also, in order to authenticate users redirected from GSIS' auth:

from django.urls import include, path
from social_django import views as social_django_views


urlpatterns = [
    path("auth/", include("social_django.urls", namespace="social")),
    # ...the rest of URL patterns
]

The ability to explicitly set the backend to be used in a URL for authentication, is also possible:

urlpatterns = [
    path(
        "authorize/gsis/",
         social_django_views.complete,
        kwargs={"backend": "ktimatologio_gsis"},
        name="authorize",
    ),
    # ...the rest of URL patterns
]