classic-http-auth 0.2.1

Authentication and authorization

Classic http auth

This package provides utils for authentication and authorization processes. Part of project "Classic".

Authentication usage

from classic.http_auth import authenticate


@join_point
@authenticate
def on_get_show_product(self, request, response):
    client = request.context.client

Client appears in request.context.client

For this you need to create instance in your core level code

from classic.http_auth import Authenticator

authenticator = Authenticator()

Decorate any controller as authentication needed (parameter "authenticator" will automatically describe in the constructor)

from classic.http_auth import authenticator_needed


@component
@authenticator_needed
class Catalog:
    catalog: services.Catalog
    ...

Decorators order is doesn't matter

Choose a properly strategy in your api factory code (adapter level) and put the authenticator in the controller

from classic.http_auth import strategies as auth_strategies

from simple_shop.adapters.shop_api import authenticator

authenticator.set_strategies(
    auth_strategies.JWT(
        secret_key='123',
    )
)

controller = controllers.Catalog(
    authenticator=authenticator,
    catalog=catalog,
)

You can pass multiple strategies to the authenticator. First succeed strategy will be winner
If all strategies failed exception will be raised

Authorization usage

This stage is doing after authentication

Define groups and permissions (access schema) in your core level code and pass this one to the authenticator

from classic.http_auth import Authenticator, Group, Permission

full_control = Permission('full_control')
read_only = Permission('read_only')

groups = (
    Group('admins', permissions=[full_control]),
    Group('managers', permissions=[read_only]),
    Group('guests'),
)

authenticator = Authenticator(app_groups=groups)

Apply authorization decorator to the controller method with needed groups and permission combination

from classic.http_auth import Group, authenticate


@authenticate
@authorize(Group('admin'))
def on_get_show_product(self, request, response):
   ...

You can combine groups and permissions as you want

from classic.http_auth import Group, Permission, authenticate, authorize


@authenticate
@authorize((Group('admin') & Group('foo')) | Permission('write'))
def on_get_show_product(self, request, response):
   ...

If access denied exception will be raised

Dependencies

falcon for pushing client info through HTTP
pyjwt for strategies

Tests and development mode

You can use dummy strategy

auth_strategy = auth_strategies.JWT(secret_key='123')
auth_dummy_strategy = auth_strategies.Dummy(
    login=login,
    name=name,
    groups=groups,
    email=email
)

if not is_dev:
    authenticator.set_strategies(auth_strategy)
else:
    authenticator.set_strategies(auth_dummy_strategy)

Dummy auth data appear in a client