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edx-platform/common/djangoapps/student/firebase_token_generator.py
2014-05-14 13:55:26 -04:00

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'''
Firebase - library to generate a token
License: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-token-generator-python/blob/master/LICENSE
Tweaked and Edited by @danielcebrianr and @lduarte1991
This library will take either objects or strings and use python's built-in encoding
system as specified by RFC 3548. Thanks to the firebase team for their open-source
library. This was made specifically for speaking with the annotation_storage_url and
can be used and expanded, but not modified by anyone else needing such a process.
'''
from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
import hashlib
import hmac
import sys
try:
import json
except ImportError:
import simplejson as json
__all__ = ['create_token']
TOKEN_SEP = '.'
def create_token(secret, data):
'''
Simply takes in the secret key and the data and
passes it to the local function _encode_token
'''
return _encode_token(secret, data)
if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
def _encode(bytes_data):
'''
Takes a json object, string, or binary and
uses python's urlsafe_b64encode to encode data
and make it safe pass along in a url.
To make sure it does not conflict with variables
we make sure equal signs are removed.
More info: docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html
'''
encoded = urlsafe_b64encode(bytes(bytes_data))
return encoded.decode('utf-8').replace('=', '')
else:
def _encode(bytes_info):
'''
Same as above function but for Python 2.7 or later
'''
encoded = urlsafe_b64encode(bytes_info)
return encoded.decode('utf-8').replace('=', '')
def _encode_json(obj):
'''
Before a python dict object can be properly encoded,
it must be transformed into a jason object and then
transformed into bytes to be encoded using the function
defined above.
'''
return _encode(bytearray(json.dumps(obj), 'utf-8'))
def _sign(secret, to_sign):
'''
This function creates a sign that goes at the end of the
message that is specific to the secret and not the actual
content of the encoded body.
More info on hashing: http://docs.python.org/2/library/hmac.html
The function creates a hashed values of the secret and to_sign
and returns the digested values based the secure hash
algorithm, 256
'''
def portable_bytes(string):
'''
Simply transforms a string into a bytes object,
which is a series of immutable integers 0<=x<=256.
Always try to encode as utf-8, unless it is not
compliant.
'''
try:
return bytes(string, 'utf-8')
except TypeError:
return bytes(string)
return _encode(hmac.new(portable_bytes(secret), portable_bytes(to_sign), hashlib.sha256).digest()) # pylint: disable=E1101
def _encode_token(secret, claims):
'''
This is the main function that takes the secret token and
the data to be transmitted. There is a header created for decoding
purposes. Token_SEP means that a period/full stop separates the
header, data object/message, and signatures.
'''
encoded_header = _encode_json({'typ': 'JWT', 'alg': 'HS256'})
encoded_claims = _encode_json(claims)
secure_bits = '%s%s%s' % (encoded_header, TOKEN_SEP, encoded_claims)
sig = _sign(secret, secure_bits)
return '%s%s%s' % (secure_bits, TOKEN_SEP, sig)