Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Adding authentication to resources

Now we will perform the following tasks:

1. Configure the Flask-HTTPAuth extension to work with our User model to verify passwords and set the authenticated user associated with a request.
2. Declare a custom function that the Flask-HTTPAuth extension will use as a callback to verify a password.
3. Create a new base class for our resources that will require authentication.

Open the views.py file within the service folder and add the following code after the last line that uses the import statement and before the lines that declare the Blueprint instance named service_blueprint. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_03_02 folder, in the Flask01/service/views.py file:

from flask_httpauth ...