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A Python CAS client

Project description

A Python CAS (Central Authentication Service) client for interfacing with a CAS service implementation, such as https://github.com/rbCAS/CASino or https://github.com/apereo/cas.

This project provides tools for building well-formed CAS-related URLs, parsing CAS XML payloads and managing the server-side session stores necessary for handling SLO (single logout).

Installation

Supports Python 2.7 and 3.4.

$ git clone git@github.com:discogs/python-cas-client.git
$ cd python-cas-client
python-cas-client$ pip install .
...

Testing

cas_client uses tox to run its unit tests under Python 2.7 and 3.4.

python-cas-client$ tox

Example

The following un-tested pseudo-code shows how you might use cas_client in a Flask project.

from cas_client import CASClient
from flask import Flask, redirect, request, session, url_for

app = Flask(__name__)

app_login_url = 'http://www.my-app.com/login'
cas_url = 'http://cas.my-app.com'
cas_client = CASClient(cas_url, auth_prefix='')

@app.route('/login')
def login():
    ticket = request.args.get('ticket')
    if ticket:
        try:
            cas_response = cas_client.perform_service_validate(
                ticket=ticket,
                service_url=app_login_url,
                )
        except:
            # CAS server is currently broken, try again later.
            return redirect(url_for('root'))
        if cas_response and cas_response.success:
            session['logged-in'] = True
            return redirect(url_for('root'))
    del(session['logged-in'])
    cas_login_url = cas_client.get_login_url(service_url=app_login_url)
    return redirect(cas_login_url)

@app.route('/logout')
def logout():
    del(session['logged-in'])
    cas_logout_url = cas_client.get_logout_url(service_url=app_login_url)
    return redirect(cas_logout_url)

@app.route('/')
def root():
    if session.get('logged-in'):
        return 'You Are Logged In'
    else:
        return 'You Are Not Logged In'

This pseudo-code does not handle server-side session stores or single logout, only the bare minimum for standard login and logout.

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