I use Django/Tastypie to manage my user collection.
Is it possible to allow anonymous users to POST in the API (when creating a new user at some endpoint) and restrict authenticated users to GET only their own user, but not all the users ?
Thanks for your help.
I found the easiest thing to do was subclass the Authentication class I'm using. Just override the is_authenticated
method to return True
when the method is POST.
class AnonymousPostAuthentication(BasicAuthentication):
""" No auth on post / for user creation """
def is_authenticated(self, request, **kwargs):
""" If POST, don't check auth, otherwise fall back to parent """
if request.method == "POST":
return True
else:
return super(AnonymousPostAuthentication, self).is_authenticated(request, **kwargs)
I put my validation in a subclass of Validation
and override is_valid
.
I do the GET filtering the same way Sampson does it above.
Yes, it's possible to do both.
Here's a simple example of how you would let an authenticated user GET only their own user JSON and not from all the other users: (Assuming you are using Django's built-in user infrastructure):
# In api.py (or resource.py):
...
from tastypie.resources import ModelResource
from tastypie import fields
from models import *
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
from tastypie.authentication import BasicAuthentication
from tastypie.authorization import DjangoAuthorization
...
# REST endpoint for authenticating user accounts
class UserResource(ModelResource):
class Meta:
queryset = User.objects.all()
resource_name = 'auth/user'
list_allowed_methods = ['get']
detail_allowed_methods = ['get']
authentication = BasicAuthentication()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
def apply_authorization_limits(self, request, object_list):
return object_list.filter(username=request.user)
And here is a simple example of how you would let an anonymous user POST to create a new user (Caveat: this doesn't use Tastypie, strictly speaking)
# In views.py:
...
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
from django.http import Http404
from django.utils import timezone
from models import *
from api import *
from django.utils import simplejson
...
# REST endpoint for user registration
# Enforces server-side mediation (input validation)
# On failure, raises Http404
# On success, redirects to registration success page
def register_user(request):
if request.method != 'POST':
raise Http404('Only POSTs are allowed')
# acquire params
username = request.POST['username']
password = request.POST['password']
repeatpw = request.POST['repeatpw']
first_name = request.POST['first_name']
last_name = request.POST['last_name']
# Server-side mediation to check for invalid input
if username == '' or username is None:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: Invalid Username')
if len(username) > 30:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: username must be 30 characters or fewer')
if len(first_name) > 30:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: first name must be 30 characters or fewer')
if len(last_name) > 30:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: last name msut be 30 characters or fewer')
if len(password) < 4:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: Password too short')
if password != repeatpw:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: Password Mismatch')
# This try-except block checks existence of username conflict
try:
test_user_exists = User.objects.get(username__exact=username)
if test_user_exists != None:
raise Http404('Server-side mediation: Username exists')
except User.DoesNotExist:
pass
# Input passes all tests, proceed with user creation
user = User.objects.create_user(username, 'default@nomail.com', password)
group = Group.objects.get(name='Standard')
user.first_name = first_name
user.last_name = last_name
user.groups.add(group)
user.is_staff = False
user.save()
# Build confirmation JSON
confirmation = {
'action': 'register_user',
'username': username,
'success': 'yes',
}
json_return = simplejson.dumps(confirmation)
# return JSON of the success confirmation
return HttpResponse(json_return, mimetype='application/json')
Based on that, here's a script of how you might create a new user through the REST endpoint using curl:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Usage: ./register_user username password repeatpw first_name last_name"
curl -v -d "username=$1&password=$2&repeatpw=$3&first_name=$4&last_name=$5" http://127.0.0.1:8000/register_user/ > result