Yes, and no. I was looking for an app that would generate a random string of text for a user, so that a user can view restircted information on a site without needing a session linked to his username. What I found on PyPI was good, but not what I needed for a few reasons.
- The app usually was REST-based, meaning it was more for request authentication an not for session authentication.
- The app relied to heavily on Django's authenticatino system. While that potentially could work the problem here is that if you log out of the user account, the token session dies with it.
Thus, I have Django Token Asena, the app that can provide session-independent tokens. You can even generate sets of tokens. With each token and with each token set you can set a token expiration and a token timeout.
As with most apps, the easiest way is through PIP:
pip install -U django-token-asena
Add asena to your list of INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# ...
'asena',
# ...
)
You can contribute to the code at Gitorious. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send me a message!
Some of the unit tests do fail, mainly test_get_time_remaining
: and (consequently) test_get_session_dict (both from the
asena.tests.test_models.TestToken. test case). This is because
there is a clock cycle delay between the expected time and the
result time, so the values are usually off by a second even if the
test would normally pass. I'll work on a fix for this in the future.