Question

I am building an app for making API calls to websites like (FB, LinkedIn, etc.) I need to use OAuth to authorize my application to request data on behalf of the user. I am stuck with a problem of storing the instance of my website interface library (LinkedIn) across views. I used request.session – with file back end.

Below is the code http://pastebin.com/QTgqSr7W

Am I doing something wrong? can see the value being set in login() but I cannot see the same value in token(). Is this wrong to expect? Any workaround for passing the value of the api instance?

Thanks and Regards,
Atul.

Answer 1

hmm, i think its because you are saving the entire api python instance, i dont think that sessions support that kind of data, why not just redirect user to auth url without saving something in session, then in callback view, you instantiate the linkedin.LinkedIn class like so

from django.conf import settings

key = settings.KEY
secret = settings.SECRET
return_url = settings.CALLBACK


# You make the api connection here, so its not tied to any function
api = linkedin.LinkedIn(key, secret, return_url)

def login(request):
    if api.request_token():
        auth_url = api.get_authorize_url()
        return HttpResponseRedirect(auth_url)

#below is the view that will get called with the oauth oken.
def token(request, param):
    #do stuff with the api.