django-canvas-api-token 0.1.0

Django app for generating Canvas API user oauth tokens

A reusable django app for handling the workflow of generating per-user Canvas API oauth tokens. The app assumes that your django project is using the django_auth_lti middleware.

Install

pip install django-canvas-api-token

Setup

1. Add "canvas_api_token" to your INSTALLED_APPS settings

2. Insert the url configuration into your project/app urls.py

url(r'^canvas_api_token/', include('canvas_api_token.urls'))

3. Add a LTI_APP_DEVELOPER_KEYS entry to your settings that looks like this:

LTI_APP_DEVELOPER_KEYS = {
    '[oauth-consumer-key]': {
        'client_id': '[client_id]',
        'client_secret': '[client_secret]'
    }
}

where …

• oauth_consumer_key value is the consumer key used when registering your LTI tool in the Canvas account admin

• client_id is the integer client id value of your Canvas developer key

• client_secret is the random string ‘secret’ value of your Canvas developer key

License

django-canvas-api-token is licensed under the BSD license

Copyright

2014 President and Fellows of Harvard College

Release History

0.1.0 (2014-12-17)

• Birth!