import time from django.contrib.auth.models import User from manifold.manifoldapi import ManifoldAPI # Name my backend 'ManifoldBackend' class ManifoldBackend: # Create an authentication method # This is called by the standard Django login procedure def authenticate(self, token=None): if not token: return None try: username = token['username'] password = token['password'] request = token['request'] auth = {'AuthMethod': 'password', 'Username': username, 'AuthString': password} api = ManifoldAPI(auth) # Authenticate user and get session key session = api.GetSession() if not session : return None #self.session = session # Change GetSession() at some point to return expires as well expires = time.time() + (24 * 60 * 60) # Change to session authentication api.auth = {'AuthMethod': 'session', 'session': session} self.api = api # Get account details person = api.GetPersons(auth)[0] self.person = person request.session['manifold'] = {'auth': api.auth, 'person': person, 'expires': expires} except: return None try: # Check if the user exists in Django's local database user = User.objects.get(username=username) except User.DoesNotExist: # Create a user in Django's local database user = User.objects.create_user(username, username, 'passworddoesntmatter') user.first_name = person['first_name'] user.last_name = person['last_name'] user.email = person['email'] return user # Required for your backend to work properly - unchanged in most scenarios def get_user(self, user_id): try: return User.objects.get(pk=user_id) except User.DoesNotExist: return None