Building RESTful Python Web Services

Adding authentication to resources

We will configure the Flask-HTTPAuth extension to work with our User model to verify passwords and set the authenticated user associated with a request. We will declare a custom function that this extension will use as a callback to verify a password. We will create a new base class for our resources that will require authentication. Open the api/views.py file and add the following code after the last line that uses the import statement and before the lines that declares the Blueprint instance . The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_chapter_07_02 folder:

from flask_httpauth import HTTPBasicAuth from flask import g from models import User, UserSchema auth = HTTPBasicAuth() @auth.verify_password ...