I just started working in Django and it is awesome!
I want my webapplication to be accessible for a restricted number of people with their twitter account. To realize this, I use the plugin Authomatic.
This is a starter example that shows how you can use Authomatic with Django. From this, I use the following code snippit:
def login(request, provider_name):
# We we need the response object for the adapter.
response = HttpResponse()
# Start the login procedure.
result = authomatic.login(DjangoAdapter(request, response), provider_name)
if result:
response.write('<a href="..">Home</a>')
elif result.user:
if not (result.user.name and result.user.id):
result.user.update()
var username = result.user.name
var id = result.user.id
return response
My question is as follows: After checking if the username is one of the allowed twitter users, how do I login so the user kan browse all the protected pages? I am used to use something like this:
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if user is not None:
if user.is_active:
login(request, user)
But the problem is that the twitter users don't have a User object assigned to them. The only thing I can think off is hardcoding a default "allowed" user in my code, but that seems quite dodgy...
EDIT: I tried to implement Ashwin's answer, but that gives me this:
# We we need the response object for the adapter. response = HttpResponse()
# Start the login procedure.
result = authomatic.login(DjangoAdapter(request, response), provider_name)
if result:
response.write('<a href="..">Home</a>')
if result.error:
# Login procedure finished with an error.
response.write('<h2>Damn that error: {0}</h2>'.format(result.error.message))
elif result.user:
# We need to update the user to get more info.
if not (result.user.name and result.user.id):
result.user.update()
# Welcome the user.
response.write(u'<h1>Hi {0}</h1>'.format(result.user.name))
response.write(u'<h2>Your id is: {0}</h2>'.format(result.user.id))
response.write(u'<h2>Your email is: {0}</h2>'.format(result.user.email))
# if result.user.id == 110740012624414845989:
uname = result.user.id
pwd = '** RANDOM PASSOWRD I SHOULD HAVE? **'
user = authenticate(username=uname, password=pwd)
login(request, user)
First of all I can't imagine that it is good practice to have a password writter in my code like this. Second I get the error Provider name "username" not specified!
Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
