OAuth Client
Project description
Python OAuth 2 Client
alf is an OAuth 2 Client based on requests.Session with seamless support for the Client Credentials Flow.
Features
Automatic token retrieving and renewing
Token expiration control
Automatic token storage
Automatic retry on status 401 (UNAUTHORIZED)
Usage
Initialize the client and use it as a requests.Session object.
from alf.client import Client
alf = Client(
token_endpoint='http://example.com/token',
client_id='client-id',
client_secret='secret')
resource_uri = 'http://example.com/resource'
alf.put(
resource_uri, data='{"name": "alf"}',
headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
alf.get(resource_uri)
alf.delete(resource_uri)
Using your custom token storage
Now passing an object with get and set attributes you can store or retrieve a token.
This object can be a Redis, Memcache or your custom object.
from alf.client import Client
from redis import StrictRedis
redis = StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
alf = Client(
token_endpoint='http://example.com/token',
client_id='client-id',
client_secret='secret',
token_storage=redis)
resource_uri = 'http://example.com/resource'
alf.put(
resource_uri, data='{"name": "alf"}',
headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
alf.get(resource_uri)
alf.delete(resource_uri)
How does it work?
Before the request, a token will be requested on the authentication endpoint and a JSON response with the access_token and expires_in keys will be expected.
Multiple attempts will be issued after an error response from the endpoint if the token_retries argument is used. Check token-retrying for more info.
alf keeps the token until it is expired according to the expires_in value.
The token will be used on a Bearer authorization header for the original request.
GET /resource/1 HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Authorization: Bearer token-12312
If the request fails with a 401 (UNAUTHORIZED) status, a new token is retrieved from the endpoint and the request is retried. This happens only once, if it fails again the error response is returned.
The token will be reused for every following request until it is expired.
Token Retrying
The client supports the retry interface from urllib3 to repeat attempts to retrieve the token from the endpoint.
The following code will retry the token request 5 times when the response status is 500 and it will wait 0.3 seconds longer after each error (known as backoff).
from requests.packages.urllib3.util import Retry
from alf.client import Client
alf = Client(
token_endpoint='http://example.com/token',
client_id='client-id',
client_secret='secret',
token_retry=Retry(total=5, status_forcelist=[500], backoff_factor=0.3))
Workflow
Troubleshooting
In case of an error retrieving a token, the error response will be returned, the real request won’t happen.
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