Add a page where user can get auth_token.

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The interactive graph sharing website.

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Add a page where user can get auth_token. #222

Open adbharadwaj opened 7 years ago

adbharadwaj commented 7 years ago

User needs auth_token to access the REST APIs.

adbharadwaj commented 7 years ago

The aim is to provide the auth token on the API documentation page.

sandeepm96 commented 7 years ago

@adbharadwaj Could you provide some more details as in what technique we would be using to generate auth token that is to be provided to the user?

adbharadwaj commented 7 years ago

We use basic authentication to generate auth token right now.

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sandeepm96 commented 7 years ago

To provide the auth token on API documentation page, we need to make changes to the docs in the graphspace-manual repository. We can get the username and password from the user and generate the auth token by base64 encoding. But how will we ensure that the user credentials are correct or the user is signed up for graphspace or not?

adbharadwaj commented 7 years ago

What we want to do is create a user page. This page will provide users details like

Email
Auth Token
Name (probably in future)

This will require following tasks:

Create a HTML page for showing user details.
Add a url route to this page.
Add a view function to handle the new route, get the user object and render the new html page.
Update the controller function which returns user object to also return auth token along with other user details.

adbharadwaj commented 6 years ago

https://summerofcode17.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/using-the-graphspace-restful-api/

adbharadwaj commented 6 years ago

Example: https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/api-access-token/