django-identities 2.1.1

A django app with authentication related functionality, a custom user model and object level permissions / groups.

django-identities

Releases

This project follows the semantic versioning specification for its releases.

Development

Requirements

• Python >=3.7
• Django >=3.2
• django-rest-framework >=3.12

Setup

• Create and activate a python3 venv.
• Install the library in the editable mode pip install -e .[test]
• Install dev requirements pip install -r requirements-dev.txt.
• Install git hooks to automatically format code using black with pre-commit install

Migrations

To create migrations after modifying database models run ./manage.py makemigrations

Installation

From git in requirements.txt

1. To install this package from this git repository, add the django-identities package to the requirements.txt file.

2. Add guardian and identities to settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    #...
    'guardian',
    'identities',
    #...
)

3. Add the following to your settings, replacing all values with REPLACE with your configuration:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = "identities.User"
GUARDIAN_MONKEY_PATCH = False
GUARDIAN_GET_INIT_ANONYMOUS_USER = "identities.models.get_anonymous_user_instance"

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
    "guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend",
]

AUTHLIB_OAUTH_CLIENTS = {
    "identity_provider": {
        "client_id": "REPLACE OIDC client_id",
        "client_secret": "REPLACE OIDC client_secret",
        "server_metadata_url": "REPLACE OIDC config_url",
        "client_kwargs": {"scope": "openid email profile"},
    }
}
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "REPLACE OIDC login_redirect_url"
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = "REPLACE OIDC logout_redirect_url"

4. In <app>/urls.py, extend urlpatterns like this:

urlpatterns = [
    #...
    re_path(r"^backend/identity/", include("identities.urls")),
    re_path(
        r"^backend/identity/auth/local/",
        include("rest_framework.urls", namespace="rest_framework"),
    ),
    #...
]

5. Extend the file <app>/templates/rest_framework/base.html with the following:

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
<li class="dropdown">
  <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
    {{ user.email }}
    <b class="caret"></b>
  </a>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu" style="padding: 0;">
    <form action="{% url 'identities:oidc-logout' %}" method="post">
      {% csrf_token %}
      <button name="logout" value="logout" class="btn btn-default btn-block">
        Log out
      </button>
    </form>
  </ul>
</li>
{% else %}
<li>
  <a href="{% url 'identities:oidc-authenticate' %}">Log in (federation)</a>
</li>
<li>
  <a href="{% url 'rest_framework:login' %}">Log in (local)</a>
</li>
{% endif %}

6. Run ./manage.py migrate

7. Restart your application server