jwt_user

A Python implementation of acquiring, authorizing user from jwt token. designed to work for any request entity from flask,django,tornado frameworks.

Installing

Install with pip:

$ pip install jwt_user

Usage

>>> import jwt_user
>>> payload = {'username': 'test'}
>>> token = jwt_user.generate_token(payload)
>>> request = jwt_user.generate_request(token)
>>> user = jwt_user.get_jwt_user(request)
>>> user
{}
>>> user.username
'test'
>>> #Second usage
... 
>>> import tornado
>>> BaseRequestHandler = tornado.web.RequestHandler
>>> class MainHandler(BaseRequestHandler):
...     @jwt_user.authorized_user
...     def get(self):
...         self.write('Hello, Authorized user')
...
>>> class MainUserHandler(BaseRequestHandler):
...     @jwt_user.authorized_user
...     def get(self):
...         user = jwt_user.get_jwt_user(self.request)
...         self.write('Hello, {}'.format(user.username))
>>>
>>> os.environ['JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA'] = '3400'
>>> os.environ['JWT_PRIVATE_KEY'] = 'some random hexa private text'
>>> os.environ['JWT_SECRET_KEY'] = 'some random hexa secret text'
>>> os.environ['JWT_AUTH_HEADER'] = 'Authorization'
>>> os.environ['JWT_AUTH_HEADER_PREFIX'] = 'Bearer'
>>> def make_app():
...     user_valid_fields = {'username', 'user_id', 'token'}
...     jwt_user.set_user_valid_fields(user_valid_fields)
...     application = tornado.web.Application([
...     (r'/', MainHandler),
...     (r'/user_page', MainUserHandler)])
...     return application
>>>

],

Documentation

View the full docs online at https://jwt_user.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Tests

You can run tests from the project root after cloning with:

$ make smoke