From 2265713028e1d9a5fb026ecc8af8ea7967375110 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rocky Duan <dementrock@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:22:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added shared key authentication

---
 lms/lib/comment_client/settings.py | 2 ++
 lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lms/lib/comment_client/settings.py b/lms/lib/comment_client/settings.py
index f64726335f..75a107d0c9 100644
--- a/lms/lib/comment_client/settings.py
+++ b/lms/lib/comment_client/settings.py
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ else:
     SERVICE_HOST = 'http://localhost:4567'
 
 PREFIX = SERVICE_HOST + '/api/v1'
+
+API_KEY = "PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
diff --git a/lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py b/lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py
index 16b1952303..4e8beec079 100644
--- a/lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py
+++ b/lms/lib/comment_client/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import requests
 import json
+import settings
 
 def strip_none(dic):
     return dict([(k, v) for k, v in dic.iteritems() if v is not None])
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ def merge_dict(dic1, dic2):
     return dict(dic1.items() + dic2.items())
     
 def perform_request(method, url, data_or_params=None, *args, **kwargs):
+    data_or_params['api_key'] = settings.API_KEY
     if method in ['post', 'put', 'patch']:
         response = requests.request(method, url, data=data_or_params)
     else: