chowkidar-strawberry 0.1.1

All-in-One JWT Authentication plugin for Strawberry

Chowkidar

A simple, straight-forward JWT authentication plugin for your Django Strawberry GraphQL APIs.

Installation

1. Install the package from PyPI:

pip install chowkidar-strawberry

2. Add chowkidar_strawberry to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "chowkidar",
]

3. Add chowkidar.extensions.JWTAuthExtension to your strawberry schema extensions:-

from chowkidar.extension import JWTAuthExtension

schema = strawberry.Schema(
    query=Query,
    mutation=Mutation,
    extensions=[JWTAuthExtension],
)

4. Wrap your Strawberry GraphQL view with chowkidar.view.auth_enabled_view:

from chowkidar.view import auth_enabled_view

urlpatterns = [
  ...
  path(
      "graphql/",
      auth_enabled_view(
          GraphQLView.as_view(schema=schema, graphiql=settings.DEBUG)
      )
  ),
]

How it Works?

• Uses short-lived stateless JWT Access Token set as cookie to authenticate users. An additional, long-running stateful JWT Refresh Token, that is recorded in RefreshToken model, is also generated to automatically to allow refreshing / generating new access token when expired. This process is fully managed automatically at the backend. For issuing new access token using a existing refresh token, the refresh token is validated against the DB. For all other requests, the DB is not hit, but access key is simply validated against its key.
• settings.py enlists various configuration options for this plugin. The default values are set to work out of the box with minimal configuration. You can override these values in your project's settings.py to customize the behavior.
• Uses a custom Strawberry Extension to read JWT cookies from the request, for validation, and auto issuing new access token using refresh token when available. Also sets up info.context.userID for easy access to the authenticated user's ID in resolvers. This extension is valid throughout the resolving period of the GraphQL request, although auth is processed before actual query execution. This is defined in extensions.py.
• Uses a wrapper function that wraps the GraphQLView to manage cookies. Data for the cookies is sent to this function via setting custom attribute in request object from extensions.py. This function executes after GraphQL has been fully processed and http response is ready. This is defined in view.py.
• Consumer applications can custom write login/logout mutations, by wrapping those with @issue_tokens_on_login and @revoke_tokens_on_logout decorators. These are defined in wrappers.py
• Consumer APIs can decorate auth requiring resolvers with @login_required (or @resolve_user), as well as get get the ID of the requesting user from info.context.userID. The decorators are defined in decorators.py.

Acknowledgement

This project is inspired by django-graphql-jwt & django-graphql-social-auth by flavors, and is loosely forked from its implementation.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3.