On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 5:02:28 PM UTC-7, Darko Colic wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to use web2py to build a JSON based API (not REST though) for a > mobile and single-page-application client. > > I wonder if there is a simple way to use Web2py internals like auth and > session global object for such a case? > > For example, in regular web-based app web2py "magically" restore a user > and a session using cookies. In API environment it is not possible. Would > it be possible instead to generate a token upon a login and then associate > auth and session objects with that token. Then on every API function that > requires login perform a decoration function to look up a token that client > sends and restore auth and session objects associated with it, and later > use it in the function as we would in a normal web-based app. Is there a > way to do that? > > >
Niphlod has a token package (in "alpha" testing, I think) that implements JWT for Web2Py. I don't know if that would do what you want, but it should do most of it. >From his post on the developer's list, here's his quick sample: As per "original" demand of covering one-time-issued tokens, the "jti" > claim is the standard, and can be easily implemented, imagining to store > valid tokens in a database table: > > db.define_table('jwt_tokens', Field('token'), Field('user_id'), Field( > 'inserted_on', 'datetime', default=request.now)) > > def myadditional_payload(payload): > res = db(db.jwt_tokens.user_id == payload['user']['id']).select( > orderby=~db.jwt_tokens.inserted_on).first() > payload['jti'] = res.token > return payload > > def mybefore_authorization(tokend): > res = db( > (db.jwt_tokens.user_id == tokend['user']['id']) & > (db.jwt_tokens.token == tokend['jti']) > ).select().first() > if not res: > raise HTTP(400, u'Invalid JWT jti claim') > > myjwt = Web2pyJwt('secret', auth, > additional_payload=additional_payload, > before_authorization=mybefore_authorization) > <URL:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py-developers/dXfUrHNI5Sg/gqNa3kXsCQAJ> Look for reports on testing of the package soon. /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.