auth.rst

Authentication

Introduction

WebDav like any other http api protocol accepts wide range of authentication methods: Basic, Digest, OAuth, OAuth2, etc. Most of them are already developed in the api other libraries. So we provide mixins you can use to bring in Django Rest Framework or Tastipie authentication layer support.

Using Django REST framework authentication

Inherit your DavView from RestAuthViewMixIn and provide REST authentication instances as authentications property tuple.

..code: python

from rest_framework.authentication import SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication from djangodav.views import DavView

class AuthFsDavView(RestAuthViewMixIn, DavView):

authentications = (BasicAuthentication(), SessionAuthentication())

Using Django Tastypie authentication

Inherit your DavView from TastypieAuthViewMixIn and provide Tastpie authentication instance as authentication property tuple.

..code: python

from djangodav.auth.tasty import TastypieAuthViewMixIn from tastypie.authentication import BasicAuthentication

class RestAuthDavView(TastypieAuthViewMixIn, DavView):

authentication = BasicAuthentication()

resource_class = TempDirWebDavResource lock_class = DummyLock acl_class = FullAcl

With Tastipie you can also use MultiAuthentication to provide several authentication methods.

..code: python

from djangodav.auth.tasty import TastypieAuthViewMixIn from tastypie.authentication import BasicAuthentication, MultiAuthentication, SessionAuthentication

class TastyAuthDavView(TastypieAuthViewMixIn, DavView):

authentication = MultiAuthentication(BasicAuthentication(), SessionAuthentication())

resource_class = TempDirWebDavResource lock_class = DummyLock acl_class = FullAcl