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)
>

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Look for reports on testing of the package soon.

/dps

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