A python library for wrapping around the CELTIC service
Project description
This module contains a thin wrapper around the CELTIC service which allows for cross-platform LTI validation.
Dependencies
Tests
tox is used as a test runner for this library. It is configured to run tests for py27, py35 and py36.
pip install tox tox
Usage
from celtic_lib import get_lti_validator, LTIValidatorException LTI_LISTEN_LOCATION = "https://localhost:8000/lti" def handle_request(request): """ request contains some LTI payload you just received in your application """ app_key = "some_long_unique_string_unique_to_this_application" celtic_service_uri = "https://location_of_celtic_service.net/" lti_validator = get_lti_validator(celtic_service_uri, app_key) http_method = request.method # Will be "POST", since we are only listening on the POST endpoint try: status, result = lti_validator.validate_request(LTI_LISTEN_LOCATION, http_method, request.POST) return print("Request is valid and can be trusted") except LTIValidatorException as e: return print("Request failed:", e.message, "|", e.status_code) # router is an imaginary application router. # For purposes of this is makes the handle_lti_request function handle all POST requests which are directed at LTI_LISTEN_LOCATION router.on(LTI_LISTEN_LOCATION, "POST", handle_lti_request)
Architecture
This module is fairly straightforward, it forwards any LTI request to a secure endpoint which contains a record of the oauth_consumer_key and the secret_key. This remote endpoint then validates the request, and returns a simple response indicating its validity.
DataRequester This class exposes a post method which takes the CELTIC service endpoint, and the POST data to send it. It returns the CELTIC response wrapped in the following interface:
* status_code<int> * json()<dict>
The primary reason of this class is to allow users to swap out the default DataRequester for their own to provide better control over the application
LTIValidator A class which handles the plumbing of the LTI validation. It is given a CELTIC service URI, an app_key, and a DataRequester instance. The user then only needs to call the validate_request method with a forwarded LTI payload to determine the validity of it.
LTIValidatorException An exception thrown when the server returns a not-good error code about the LTI response. The exception exposes the following data:
* message<string> - The error message the CELTIC server responded with * status_code<int> - The HTTP status code the CELTIC server responded with * errors<dict> - The response body the CELTIC service responded with
Developing
To make improvements to this package, the following is required:
* A python environment * [pandoc](https://pandoc.org/installing.html) is used to convert this README.md into `reStructuredText` 1. First: pip install pypandoc 2. Second: Download installer from pandoc website
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