Comments on: Test your django-piston API (with auth)

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:03:25 +0000

You are absolutely right. You know what? It turns out that the password field in my fixture was messed up. Not sure how that happened, but it's working now. Thank you so much for your help.

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:03:25 +0000

You are absolutely right. You know what? It turns out that the password field in my fixture was messed up. Not sure how that happened, but it's working now. Thank you so much for your help.

By: Thomas Pelletier

Thomas Pelletier — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:59:37 +0000

I think not. Here is the client.get() definition:

get(path, data={}, follow=False, **extra)

If data is omitted (in yours), it has the same value as mine.

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:53:23 +0000

the only difference I see is in the parameters at the end of the client.get() call:

... {}, **self.extra)

vs.

... HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Basic %s' % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % ('dave','password')).rstrip())

your has the extra {} in there. Does that make a difference?

By: Thomas Pelletier

Thomas Pelletier — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:45:49 +0000

Just tested in my local application: both strip and rstrip work.

By: Thomas Pelletier

Thomas Pelletier — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:45:06 +0000

This code does the same thing as mine, but it uses rstrip() insead of strip(). I'm not sure how it can impact on the result, yet try to change strip() to rstrip() in my code, and see if it works.

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:35:25 +0000

I got some help from the django-piston google group, and it looks like this works:

response = self.client.get('/api/stuff/', HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Basic %s' % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % ('dave','password')).rstrip())

which doesn't match what your code does above. Any ideas why this way works for me and not your way?

By: kizlum

kizlum — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:32:43 +0000

Yes, it looks like there is a problem in your configuration of your Piston auth backend (often set in urls.py). Paste your file here to see if we can fix it.

By: Dave Morris

Dave Morris — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:46 +0000

When I try to use this method of http authentication in a unit test against a django-piston api, I receive the following error message:

.../piston/authentication.py", line 56, in is_authenticated
request.user = self.auth_func(username=username, password=password)
.../django/contrib/auth/init.py", line 36, in authenticate
user = backend.authenticate(**credentials)
.../django/contrib/auth/backends.py", line 19, in authenticate
if user.check_password(password):
.../django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 197, in check_password
return check_password(raw_password, self.password)
.../django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 53, in check_password
algo, salt, hsh = enc_password.split('$')
ValueError: need more than 2 values to unpack

Could this be related to the realm setting in my piston urls.py file?