Resigner doc

What it does

Signes API requests: each client is identified by its key and granted access by a secret. (no secret transmitted over to server - used only to sign a request)

How to install

pip install git+git://github.com/mediapredict/resigner.git

Configuration

In settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'resigner',
    ...
)

Optional

RESIGNER_API_MAX_DELAY = 30 # max delay in seconds (default 5*60 seconds)

Usage (in progress)

Server

from django.http import JsonResponse

from resigner.server import signed_req_required

@signed_req_required
def my_api_view(request):
    resp = {"result": "this API has been protected with secret key"}
    return JsonResponse(resp)

Add through admin:

in ApiKeys: MY_API_KEY (key, used to identify a client) and my_secret_key (secret, used to get access)

You may use auto generated or provide specific value.

Client

from resigner.client import post_signed, get_signed

res = post_signed(
    "http://mysite/api_url", {"some": "data_we_want_to_transmit"}, "my_client_key", "my_secret_key"
)

if res.status_code == 200:
    print "went good!"
else:
    print "error HTTP status_code:{0}".format(res.status_code)
...

In the case of connecting to Knitting Factory

KF_URL = 'https://knittingfactory.herokuapp.com'

api_url = "{0}/explorer/api/search".format(settings.KF_URL)
request_data = {
    "q" : 
    '''
    "your_daffodil" = "one long string"
    ''',
    "flat" = False, # True will return kfid only
}
res = post_signed(api_url,
                         request_data,
                         settings.KF_API_KEY,
                         settings.KF_SECRET)

res.json() will access the data dictionary

Make sure MY_API_KEY and MY_TEST_CLIENT have been added in the server's DB as explained above.