identity 0.2.0

This is an authentication/authorization library, currently optimized for web apps. It provides some higher level APIs built on top of Microsoft's MSAL Python.

Identity library

This Identity library is an authentication/authorization library that:

• Suitable for apps that are targeting end users on Microsoft identity platform (which includes Work or school accounts provisioned through Azure AD, and Personal Microsoft accounts such as Skype, Xbox, Outlook.com).
• Currently designed for web apps, regardless of which Python web framework you are using.
• Provides a set of high level API that is built on top of, and easier to be used than Microsoft's MSAL Python library.
• Written in Python, for Python apps.

Scenarios supported

• Web app that logs in users
• Web app that logs in users and calls a web API on their behalf
• [In roadmap] Protected web API that only authenticated users can access
• [In roadmap] Protected web API that calls another (downstream) web API on behalf of the signed-in user

Installation

This package is available on PyPI. You can install it by pip install identity.

Versions

This library follows Semantic Versioning. Your project should declare identity dependency with proper lower and upper bound.

As of this writing, this library is still in preview. Please declare your dependency as identity>=0.2,<0.3.

You can find the changes for each version under Releases.

Usage

Sample coming soon.