I know there is documentation for this question here https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/customizing/, however I need some clarification on my use case.
I basically have an api that I created. What this api does is submit user form data to an external url, and once submitted, the data is saved to that external urls database.
I can then get a specific user through another api call. The user is returned as an object. Now I am trying to log that user in on my end using the django.contrib.auth through my system but what I have isn't working.
Here is my process:
A. I added a custom authentication backend to my settings.py file
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS =(
'new_app.backends.SettingsBackend',
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)
B. In my new_app's backend file, I have the following code:
class SettingsBackend(object):
def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):
if username and password:
user = api.get_user()
#add pk to user object to satisfy django error warning
user.pk = user.unique_field
return user
return None
def get_user(self, user_id):
try:
if self.user.pk == user_id:
return self.user
except:
return None
In a signin view, I am trying to log the user in using this:
def login_user(request, username, password):
from django.contrib import auth
if not username and password:
raise ValueError("Invalid username and password")
auth_user = auth.authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if auth_user is None:
raise ValueError("Invalid username and password")
auth.login(request, auth_user)
return auth_user
I get the error saying:
'api.get_user()' object has no attribute 'save'
The error is occuring on the auth.login(request, auth_user) line.
I think the reason is because the django.contrib.auth thinks my user object is a django model. So, the question is how should I tackle this to make it work given my scenario? Thanks for the time.
