""" The ``authentication`` module provides a set of pluggable authentication classes. Authentication behavior is provided by adding the ``AuthMixin`` class to a ``View`` . The set of authentication methods which are used is then specified by setting the ``authentication`` attribute on the ``View`` class, and listing a set of authentication classes. """ from django.contrib.auth import authenticate from django.middleware.csrf import CsrfViewMiddleware from djangorestframework.utils import as_tuple import base64 __all__ = ( 'BaseAuthenticaton', 'BasicAuthenticaton', 'UserLoggedInAuthenticaton' ) class BaseAuthenticaton(object): """ All authentication classes should extend BaseAuthentication. """ def __init__(self, view): """ Authentication classes are always passed the current view on creation. """ self.view = view def authenticate(self, request): """ Authenticate the request and return a ``User`` instance or None. (*) This function must be overridden to be implemented. (*) The authentication context _will_ typically be a ``User`` object, but it need not be. It can be any user-like object so long as the permissions classes on the view can handle the object and use it to determine if the request has the required permissions or not. This can be an important distinction if you're implementing some token based authentication mechanism, where the authentication context may be more involved than simply mapping to a ``User``. """ return None class BasicAuthenticaton(BaseAuthenticaton): """ Use HTTP Basic authentication. """ def authenticate(self, request): from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode, DjangoUnicodeDecodeError if 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' in request.META: auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split() if len(auth) == 2 and auth[0].lower() == "basic": try: auth_parts = base64.b64decode(auth[1]).partition(':') except TypeError: return None try: uname, passwd = smart_unicode(auth_parts[0]), smart_unicode(auth_parts[2]) except DjangoUnicodeDecodeError: return None user = authenticate(username=uname, password=passwd) if user is not None and user.is_active: return user return None class UserLoggedInAuthenticaton(BaseAuthenticaton): """ Use Django's session framework for authentication. """ def authenticate(self, request): # TODO: Switch this back to request.POST, and let FormParser/MultiPartParser deal with the consequences. if getattr(request, 'user', None) and request.user.is_active: # If this is a POST request we enforce CSRF validation. if request.method.upper() == 'POST': # Temporarily replace request.POST with .DATA, # so that we use our more generic request parsing request._post = self.view.DATA resp = CsrfViewMiddleware().process_view(request, None, (), {}) del(request._post) if resp is not None: # csrf failed return None return request.user return None # TODO: TokenAuthentication, DigestAuthentication, OAuthAuthentication