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This project contains a number of classes to perform authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) in a FastAPI application.
They can be found in oauth2_lib/fastapi.py. Most notable are:
OIDCAuth
: AuthN implementation that authenticates a user against a OIDC backend. You can subclass and implement def userinfo()
as needed.
Authentication
base class.OIDCUserModel
: model of the data returned by OIDCAuth
. You can subclass this to rename and/or add fields.OPAAuthorization
: AuthZ implementation that authorizes a user's HTTP request against an Open Policy Agent (OPA) instance.
Authorization
base class.GraphQLOPAAuthorization
: AuthZ implementation that authorizes a user's GraphQL query against an Open Policy Agent (OPA) instance.
GraphqlAuthorization
base class.OPAResult
: model of the data returned by OPAAuthorization
and GraphQLOPAAuthorization
.The orchestrator-core documentation has a section on Authentication and Authorization that describes how to use/override these classes.
To install the package from PyPI:
pip install oauth2-lib
Steps to setup a virtual environment.
Create and activate a python3 virtualenv.
Install flit to enable you to develop on this repository:
pip install flit
To install all development dependencies:
flit install --deps develop
All steps combined into 1 command:
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -U pip && pip install flit && flit install --deps develop
Activate the virtualenv and run the unit tests with:
pytest
This project uses pre-commit to automatically run a number of checks before making a git commit. The same checks will be performed in the CI pipeline so this can save you some time.
First ensure you have pre-commit installed. It is recommended to install it outside the virtualenv. On Linux and Mac, pre-commit is available in most package managers. Alternatively you can install it globally with pipx.
Once pre-commit is installed, go into the project root and enable it:
pre-commit install
This should output pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit
. The next time you run git commit
the pre-commit hooks will validate your changes.
Depending on the feature type, run bumpversion (patch|minor|major) to increment the version you are working on. For example to update the increment the patch version use
bumpversion patch
oauth2-lib must support the same python versions as orchestrator-core.
Exceptions to this rule are:
FAQs
This is the SURF Oauth2 module that interfaces with the oauth2 setup.
We found that oauth2-lib demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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