Django - Auth with mongoengine DB

Question

I want to handle authentications in my Django project with my mongoengine db.

I tried a few examples about this stuff answered in old questions but it didn\'t run. I

Answer 1

I solve the problem

In Django 1.6...

My settings.py looks like this:

"""
Django settings for prova project.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/settings/
"""

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = '^%r&tw5_steltu_ih&n6lvht0gs(0p#0p5z0br@+#l1o(iz_t6'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'prova.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'prova.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy'
    }
}
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend',
)
SESSION_ENGINE = 'mongoengine.django.sessions'
SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'mongoengine.django.sessions.BSONSerializer'
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

and my views.py looks like:

from django.shortcuts import render
# Create your views here.
from django.http import HttpResponse
from game.models import *  
from mongoengine import *
#from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
from mongoengine.django.auth import User

def login(request):
    connect('reborn')
    from django.contrib.auth import login
    from mongoengine.django.auth import User
    from mongoengine.queryset import DoesNotExist
    from django.contrib import messages
    try:
        user = User.objects.get(username='bob')#request.POST['username'])
        if user.check_password('bobpass'):#request.POST['password']):
            user.backend = 'mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend'
            print login(request, user)
            request.session.set_expiry(60 * 60 * 1) # 1 hour timeout
            print "return"
            return HttpResponse("LOGUEJAT")#redirect('index')
        else:
            print "malament"
            messages.add_message(request,messages.ERROR,u"Incorrect login name or password !")
    except DoesNotExist:
        messages.add_message(request,messages.ERROR,u"Incorrect login name or password !")
    return render(request, 'login.html', {})

def logout(request):#NOT TESTED
    from django.contrib.auth import logout
    logout(request)
    return redirect('login')

def createuser(request): 
    connect('reborn')
    User.create_user('boba','bobpass','bobsaget@fullhouse.gov')
    return HttpResponse("SAVED")

now the user object is saved in DB like:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("53465fa60f04c6552ab77475"),
    "_cls" : "User",
    "username" : "boba",
    "email" : "bobsaget@fullhouse.gov",
    "password" : "pbkdf2_sha256$12000$ZYbCHP1K1kDE$Y4LnGTdKhh1irJVktWo1QZX6AlEFn+1daTEvQAMMehA=",
    "is_staff" : false,
    "is_active" : true,
    "is_superuser" : false,
    "last_login" : ISODate("2014-04-10T09:08:54.551Z"),
    "date_joined" : ISODate("2014-04-10T09:08:54.550Z"),
    "user_permissions" : [ ]
}