Question

When trying to authenticate via OAuth in Django Piston, the following exception is thrown:

Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/api/oauth/request_token/?oauth_nonce=32921052&oauth_timestamp=1291331173&oauth_consumer_key=ghof7av2vu8hal2hek&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=
Python Version: 


Traceback:
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  100.                     response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/piston/authentication.py" in oauth_request_token
  130.         token = oauth_server.fetch_request_token(oauth_request)
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/piston/oauth.py" in fetch_request_token
  302.             self._check_signature(oauth_request, consumer, None)
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/piston/oauth.py" in _check_signature
  393.         valid_sig = signature_method.check_signature(oauth_request, consumer, token, signature)
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/piston/oauth.py" in check_signature
  482.         built = self.build_signature(oauth_request, consumer, token)
File "/Users/derek/.virtualenvs/optimal-rest/lib/python2.7/site-packages/piston/oauth.py" in build_signature
  513.             hashed = hmac.new(key, raw, sha)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7/lib/python2.7/hmac.py" in new
  133.     return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7/lib/python2.7/hmac.py" in __init__
  72.         self.outer.update(key.translate(trans_5C))

Exception Type: TypeError at /api/oauth/request_token/?oauth_nonce=32921052&oauth_timestamp=1291331173&oauth_consumer_key=ghof7av2vu8hal2hek&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=
Exception Value: character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

Can’t tell if it’s a bug in Piston or if I can’t use the oauth2 lib.

Consumer Code:

import os
import cgi
import oauth2 as oauth

# settings for the local test consumer
CONSUMER_SERVER = os.environ.get("CONSUMER_SERVER") or 'localhost'
CONSUMER_PORT = os.environ.get("CONSUMER_PORT") or '8000'
print CONSUMER_SERVER , CONSUMER_PORT 

# fake urls for the test server (matches ones in server.py)
REQUEST_TOKEN_URL = 'http://%s:%s/api/oauth/request_token/' % (CONSUMER_SERVER, CONSUMER_PORT)
ACCESS_TOKEN_URL = 'http://%s:%s/api/oauth/access_token/' % (CONSUMER_SERVER, CONSUMER_PORT)
AUTHORIZE_URL = 'http://%s:%s/api/oauth/authorize/' % (CONSUMER_SERVER, CONSUMER_PORT)

# key and secret granted by the service provider for this consumer application - same as the MockOAuthDataStore
CONSUMER_KEY = 'ghof7av2vu8hal2hek'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'ohhey'

consumer = oauth.Consumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
client = oauth.Client(consumer)

# Step 1: Get a request token. This is a temporary token that is used for 
# having the user authorize an access token and to sign the request to obtain 
# said access token.

resp, content = client.request(REQUEST_TOKEN_URL, "GET")
if resp['status'] != '200':
    raise Exception("Invalid response %s." % resp['status'])

Referencing https://github.com/clemesha/django-piston-oauth-example for the consumer code.

Answer 1

This is a piston problem that comes from an encoding problem of the key/secret of the consumer.
The solution is to force the encoding of the key/secret returned from the database to ASCII.

In the store.py file of Piston, modify the lookup_consumer so it look like this:

def lookup_consumer(self, key):
    try:
        self.consumer = Consumer.objects.get(key=key)
        self.consumer.key = self.consumer.key.encode('ascii')
        self.consumer.secret = self.consumer.secret.encode('ascii')
        return self.consumer
    except Consumer.DoesNotExist:
        return None

Here is my fork of django-piston fixing this problem.