drf-firebase-auth-cavoke 0.0.7
Custom DRF authentication backend.
License: MIT

# DRF Firebase Auth (Forked from [drf-firebase-auth by garyburgman](https://github.com/garyburgmann/drf-firebase-auth))

## Requirements


* Python (tested with 2.7, 3.6)
* Django
* Django Rest Framework



## Installation

```
$ pip install drf-firebase-auth-cavoke
```

Add the application to your project's `INSTALLED_APPS` in `settings.py`.

```
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'drf_firebase_auth_cavoke',
]
```

In your project's `settings.py`, add this to the `REST_FRAMEWORK` configuration. Note that if you want to retain access to the browsable API for locally created users, then you will probably want to keep `rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication` too.


```
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
  ...
  'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
    ...
    'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
    'drf_firebase_auth_cavoke.authentication.FirebaseAuthentication',
  ]
}
```


The `drf_firebase_auth_cavoke` application comes with the following settings as default, which can be overridden in your project's `settings.py` file. Make sure to nest them within `drf_firebase_auth_cavoke` as below:


```
drf_firebase_auth_cavoke = {
    # path to JSON file with firebase secrets
    'FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY': '',
    # allow creation of new local user in db
    'FIREBASE_CREATE_LOCAL_USER': True,
    # attempt to split firebase user.display_name and set local user
    # first_name and last_name
    'FIREBASE_ATTEMPT_CREATE_WITH_DISPLAY_NAME': True,
    # commonly JWT or Bearer (e.g. JWT <token>)
    'FIREBASE_AUTH_HEADER_PREFIX': 'JWT',
    # verify that JWT has not been revoked
    'FIREBASE_CHECK_JWT_REVOKED': True,
    # require that firebase user.email_verified is True
    'FIREBASE_AUTH_EMAIL_VERIFICATION': False
}
```

You can get away with leaving all the settings as default except for `FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY`, which is obviously required. As a minimum, you will need to set this in your project's `settings.py`. This must be the JSON service account key that you receive from the Firebase console for your application.

```
...
drf_firebase_auth_cavoke = {
    'FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY': 'project/config/firebase.json'
}
```

Now that you have configured the application, run the migrations so that the Firebase data can be stored.

```
$ ./manage.py migrate drf_firebase_auth_cavoke
```

All you need to do now is have your client code handle the Firebase popup/redirect authentication flow, retrieve the idToken from the currentUser (Firebase explains this flow well in their docs: `https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/verify-id-tokens`), and then use the idToken for the user in an `Authorization` header in requests to your API.

```
JWT <token>
```

Voila!

## Contributing

* If you test this code with a Python version not listed above and all is well, please fork and update the README to include the Python version you used :)
* I almost always setup Django with a custom user class inheriting from AbstractUser, where I switch the USERNAME_FIELD to be 'email'. This backend is setup to assign a username still anyway, but if there are any issues, please raise them and/or make a pull request to help the community!