VWS Auth Tools
Authentication and authorization tools for interacting with the Vuforia Web Services (VWS) API.
Installation
pip install vws-auth-tools
This is tested on Python 3.14+.
Usage
VWS and Query APIs
"""Make a request to the VWS API."""
import os
from http import HTTPStatus
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import requests
from vws_auth_tools import authorization_header, rfc_1123_date
access_key = os.environ["VWS_SERVER_ACCESS_KEY"]
secret_key = os.environ["VWS_SERVER_SECRET_KEY"]
request_path = "/targets"
content = b""
method = "GET"
formatted_date = rfc_1123_date()
authorization_header_value = authorization_header(
access_key=access_key,
secret_key=secret_key,
method=method,
content=content,
content_type="",
date=formatted_date,
request_path=request_path,
)
headers = {
"Authorization": authorization_header_value,
"Date": formatted_date,
}
response = requests.request(
method=method,
url=urljoin(base="https://vws.vuforia.com", url=request_path),
headers=headers,
data=content,
timeout=30,
)
assert response.status_code == HTTPStatus.OK, response.text
Model Target Web API
The Model Target Web API authenticates with OAuth2 client credentials rather than the VWS signature scheme. This package builds the HTTP Basic header for the POST /oauth2/token request and the Bearer header for the dataset endpoints; making the token request, and caching the returned token, are left to you.
"""Build authorization headers for the Model Target Web API."""
import os
from vws_auth_tools import (
basic_authorization_header,
bearer_authorization_header,
)
client_id = os.environ["VWS_MODEL_TARGET_CLIENT_ID"]
client_secret = os.environ["VWS_MODEL_TARGET_CLIENT_SECRET"]
token_request_headers = {
"Authorization": basic_authorization_header(
client_id=client_id,
client_secret=client_secret,
),
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
}
# Sending ``grant_type=client_credentials`` to ``POST /oauth2/token``
# with those headers returns JSON with an ``access_token`` item.
access_token = "eyJhbGciOiJtb2NrIn0.e30.example-signature" # noqa: S105
dataset_request_headers = {
"Authorization": bearer_authorization_header(
access_token=access_token,
),
}
assert token_request_headers["Authorization"].startswith("Basic ")
assert dataset_request_headers["Authorization"].startswith("Bearer ")
Full Documentation
See the full documentation.
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