Question

I am relatively new with Django and it’s ecosystem. I am writing REST api for our mobile client using django-tastypie. I have gone through almost all the examples on the web about how to use tastypie for creating REST interfaces. but none of them are specific to POSTing the data from client and how would you authorize a client.

I used the from tastypie.authentication.BasicAuthentication as show in the example. It opens a pop up asking username and password and works fine on the browser. But I am not sure, if it will do the same thing on mobile (to be specific, native IOS app). I am not quite getting when a user will make a request to login how this popup will be shown there on his/her mobile device if he or she is not using the browser but the native app.

I am totally lost on this, I would really appreciate your help.

Answer 1

Thanks for the help.

I used similar approach mentioned by @Iurii. Here is my solution.

I wrote a class for handling the authentication and override is_authenticated method. and then I can use this class in Meta definition of tastypie resource classes.

    from tastypie.authentication import BasicAuthentication
    from tastypie.resources import Resource, ModelResource

    # class for handling authentication
    class MyAuthentication(BasicAuthentication):
        def is_authenticated(self, request, **kwargs):
            # put here the logic to check username and password from request object
            # if the user is authenticated then return True otherwise return False

    # tastypie resource class
    class MyResource(ModelResource):
        class Meta:
            authentication = MyAuthentication()

this will ensure a request to access the resource will go through your authentication code.