test-auth/app/api/auth.py

from urllib import urlencode
from datetime import datetime

from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden
from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
from django.utils.timezone import now

from api.models import AuthAPIKey, AuthAPILog


class APIKeyAuthentication(object):
    """ Validats a request by API key passed as a GET parameter """

    def is_authenticated(self, request):
        try:
            keyobj = AuthAPIKey.objects.get(key=request.GET.get('apikey', None))
        except AuthAPIKey.DoesNotExist:
            pass
        else:
            if keyobj and keyobj.active:
                params = request.GET.copy()
                if params.get('apikey', None): del params['apikey']
                if len(params):
                    url = "%s?%s" % (request.path, urlencode(params))
                else:
                    url = request.path
                AuthAPILog.objects.create(key=keyobj, access_datetime=now(), url=url)
                request.user = AnonymousUser()
                request.api_key = keyobj
                return True
        return False

    def challenge(self):
        return HttpResponseForbidden('Access Denied, use a API Key')