Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: flask-stateless-auth
Version: 0.0.9
Summary: Flask stateless authentication with unsigned tokens
Home-page: https://github.com/omarryhan/flask-stateless-auth
Author: Omar Ryhan
Author-email: omarryhan@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description: # Flask-Stateless-Auth
        
        A lightweight authentication library for stateless APIs.
        
        
        ## Features:
        
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth assists with stateless authentication in case a Flask developer decides to:
            - Authenticate statelessly without the use of sessions. (Typically used when implementing REST APIs).
            - Not to issue signed tokens e.g.(JWT), instead issue tokens that are to be validated against a db or a datastore of sorts.
        
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth is similar to OAUTH2 but it's specifically designed to provide the ability for *1st party* clients to authenticate with bearer tokens.
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth stores a current_stateless_user variable in the request context upon authentication using the `token_required` decorator
        
        - Developer is free to implement their own authorization scheme, However:
            - A typical `header_name` is 'Authorization'
            - A typical `auth_type` is 'Bearer'
            - A typical `token` is a random b64 encoded string.
            - A typical `token_type` is: an access or refresh token
        
        ## Important Remarks:
        
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth does not enforce the usage of any kind of db or data structure
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth however enforces the use of a certian format for your chosen authorization header, the format is as follows:
            - {'header_name': 'auth_type' + ' ' + 'token'}
        
        - Flask-Stateless-Auth needs 2 callbacks in order to function properly:
        
        - `token_loader`: Should load a token from your models given, a `token`, `token_type`, and `auth_type`
        - `user_loader`: Should load a user from your models given token(token loaded from token loader)
        
        Flask-Stateless-Auth also needs a StatlessAuthError error handler. The handler will receive an error with the following attributes:
        
        - `error.code`: suggested status code
        - `error.msg`: message
        - `error.type`: Error type ('token', 'request', 'scope')
        - The developer can then decide how to handle each error seperately by controlling the info they would want to give out to the api client.
        
        Last and most importantly, you should raise a StatelessAuthError in the `token_loader` and `user_loader` callbacks to ensure that those methods do not return None.
        
        ## API
        
        - StatelessAuthManager
        - StatelessAuthError
        - current_stateless_user
        - token_required()
        - TokenMixin
        - UserMixin
        
        ## Quick Start 
        
            # initializations
            stateless_auth_manager = StatelessAuthManager()
            app = Flask(__name__.split('.')[0])
            
            # configs
            class Config:
                #TOKEN_TYPE = 'Bearer'         # Default
                #TOKEN_HEADER = 'Authorization'# Default
                #ADD_CONTEXT_PROCESSOR = True  # Default
            
            # models
            class User(UserMixin):
                def __init__(self, id, username):
                    self.id = id
                    self.username = username
            
            class Token(TokenMixin):
                def __init__(self, user_id, access_token, refresh_token):
                    self.user_id = user_id
                    self.access_token = access_token
                    self.refresh_token = refresh_token 
            
            # db
            users = [
                User(1, 'first_user'),
                User(2, 'second_user')
            ]
            
            tokens = [
                Token(1, 'first_user_access_token', 'first_user_refresh_token'),
                Token(2, 'second_user_access_token', 'second_user_refresh_token')
            ]
            
            # First loader
            @stateless_auth_manager.user_loader
            def user_by_token(token):
            ''' where `token` is the token model loaded from the token table '''
                try:
                    for user in users:
                        if user.id == token.id: return user # Use flask.str_safecmp instead
                            raise StatelessAuthError(msg='token belongs to a user but user wasn't found, code=401, type_='Token')
                except:
                    raise StatelessAuthError(msg='internal server error', code=500, type_='Server')
            
            # Second loader
            @stateless_auth_manager.token_loader
            def token_by(token, token_type, auth_type):
            ''' where `token` is the token loaded from the header '''
                try:
                    for token in tokens:
                        if token_type == 'access'
                            if token.access_token == token:
                                return token
                        elif token_type == 'refresh':
                            if token.refresh_token == token:
                                return token
                    raise StatelessAuthError(msg='{} token doesn\'t belong to a user'.format(token.type), code=401, type_='Token')
                except:
                    raise StatelessAuthError(msg='internal server error', code=500, type_='Server')
            
            # Error handler
            @app.errorhandler(StatelessAuthError)
            def handle_stateless_auth_error(error):
                return jsonify({'error': error.msg}), error.code
            
            @app.route('/secret', methods=['GET'])
            @token_required(token_type='access', auth_type='Bearer') #access by default
            def secret():
                data = {'secret': 'Stateless auth is awesome :O'}
                return jsonify(data), 200
            
            @app.route('/whoami', methods=['GET'])
            @token_required('access')
            def whoami():
                data = {'my_username': current_stateless_user.username}
                return jsonify(data), 200
            
            if __name__ == '__main__':
                app.config.from_object(Config())
                stateless_auth_manager.init_app(app)
                app.run()
        
        - For a more comprehensive illustration, check out: `tests/app_example.py` and `tests/test_app.py`.
        
        ## Testing
        run tests with: `pytest -v`
        
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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