I want to login a user using the python-social-auth
functionality for Google Plus signin in Django. When logging in from my website, everything works fine and the correct details are added to the database.
However, I want to authenticate from my Android application as well. The user logs in in the application, which then sends the access token to the django API, which handles the login process in the following code, adapted from the documentation:
@csrf_exempt
@serengeti_api_request
@psa('social:complete')
def login_social_token(request, backend):
# Ensure the token has been specified.
token = request.META.get('HTTP_ACCESSTOKEN')
if token is None:
raise SerengetiApiRequestException('Access token is missing!')
# Login the user for this session
user = request.backend.do_auth(token)
if user is None:
raise SerengetiApiRequestException('Could not authenticate user!')
login(request, user)
# Store the email address if one has been specified (e.g. Twitter)
email = request.META.get('HTTP_EMAIL')
if email is not None:
user.email = email
user.save()
# Prepare the parameters to be returned
response = dict({
'id': user.id,
'first_name': user.first_name,
'last_name': user.last_name,
'api_key': request.session.session_key,
})
# Return a 200 status code to signal success.
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(response, indent=4), status=200)
When logging in from the website, the social_auth_usersocialauth
table contains:
id | provider | uid | extra_data
==========================================
10 | google-oauth2 | <myemail> | {"token_type": "Bearer", "access_token": "<token>", "expires": 3600}
However, when logging in from the application using the above function, the operation completes ok, but the entry in the table looks like this:
id | provider | uid | extra_data
=========================================
10 | google-oauth2 | <empty> | {"access_token": "", "expires": null}
Also, the auth_user
table contains a username
like eeed494412obfuscated48bc47dd9b
instead of the Google Plus username and the email
field is empty.
What am I doing wrong and how can I obtain the same functionality as I get on the website?
I would like to mention that I have implemented Facebook and Twitter authentication from the Android application, which call the above-mentioned function and store the correct details, only Google Plus is causing problems.
Auth URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth. Access Token URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token. Client ID: Retrieved from the Google Console for your Google Classroom project or the credentials. json file that you may have set under your repository if you're coding against this API.
Python Social Auth aims to be an easy-to-setup social authentication and authorization mechanism for Python projects supporting protocols like OAuth (1 and 2), OpenID and others.
Just wanted to share an alternative way of doing this. This example is quite primitive and doesn't cover all cases (e.g. failed authentication). However, it should give enough insight into how OAuth2 authentication can be done.
Obtain a CLIENT ID from OAuth2 service provider (e.g. Google) and configure redirect URLs.
I assume you have already done this.
You need to generate a login / registration link in your view. It should be something like this:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?response_type=code&client_id={{CLIENT_ID}}&redirect_uri={{REDIRECT_URL}}&scope=email
Replace {{CLIENT_ID}}
and {{REDIRECT_URL}}
with the details you obtained in the previous step.
In urls.py
add something like:
url(r'^oauth2/google/$', views.oauth2_google),
In your views.py
create a method:
def oauth2_google(request):
# Get the code after a successful signing
# Note: this does not cover the case when authentication fails
CODE = request.GET['code']
CLIENT_ID = 'xxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com' # Edit this
CLIENT_SECRET = 'xxxxx' # Edit this
REDIRECT_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/oauth2/google' # Edit this
if CODE is not None:
payload = {
'grant_type': 'authorization_code',
'code': CODE,
'redirect_uri': REDIRECT_URL,
'client_id': CLIENT_ID,
'client_secret': CLIENT_SECRET
}
token_details_request = requests.post('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token', data=payload)
token_details = token_details_request.json()
id_token = token_details['id_token']
access_token = token_details['access_token']
# Retrieve the unique identifier for the social media account
decoded = jwt.decode(id_token, verify=False)
oauth_identifier = decoded['sub']
# Retrieve other account details
account_details_request = requests.get('https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me?access_token=' + access_token)
account_details = account_details_request.json()
avatar = account_details['image']['url']
# Check if the user already has an account with us
try:
profile = Profile.objects.get(oauth_identifier=oauth_identifier)
profile.avatar = avatar
profile.save()
user = profile.user
except Profile.DoesNotExist:
user = User.objects.create_user()
user.save()
profile = Profile(user=user, oauth_identifier=oauth_identifier, avatar=avatar)
profile.save()
user.backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
login(request, user)
return redirect('/')
You might need the following imports:
from django.shortcuts import redirect
import jwt # PyJWT==0.4.1
import requests # requests==2.5.0
import json
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