Sean Reifschneider [email protected]
Homepage/Code/bugfixes: https://github.com/linsomniac/bottlesession
License: 3-clause BSD

BottleSession README

A simple library to make session authenitcation easy with the Bottle micro-framework.

Features:

• Saves off URL being hit so that you can redirect after the login. (Stored in a cookie)
• Simple session managers included: store in /tmp and store in cookie.
• Decorator to specify that a login is required.
• Saves off login name to "bottle.request.environ['REMOTE_USER']".

Bugs:

• Could probably stand to have some other session managers.
• Each request does not re-verify the user, it just checks the session. (if the password changes, the session doesn't go invalid)
• The session data is just a dictionary (ideally, there should probably be a "save()" method or possibly use the context manager interface?)

Example

See "app", for example:

#session_manager = PickleSession()
session_manager = CookieSession()    #  NOTE: you should specify a secret
valid_user = authenticator(session_manager)

@route('/')
@route('/:name')
@valid_user()
def hello(name = 'world'):
   return '<h1>Hello %s!</h1>' % name.title()

The "authenticator" creates a decorator that requires authentication. It takes a session manager object, see the BaseSession class for the API that it needs to implement.

"bottlesession" includes a pickle-based session manager that saves session files in /tmp, much like the stock PHP session store. See "PickleSession" in "bottlesession.py" for an example implementation, it's real easy!

"PickleSession()" stores the session in a pickled file under "/tmp" (or other location, as specified by the "session_dir" argument). "CookieSession()" stores the cookie in a secure cookie. If no cookie is specified, it will try to generate a hard to guess but persistent secret. For anything but trial applications, you should specify a strong secret

You need a login page, valid_user() relies on this being at "/auth/login". Here is a complete example:

@route('/auth/login')
@post('/auth/login')
@view('html/login.html')
def login():
   passwds = { 'guest' : 'guest' }

   username = bottle.request.forms.get('username')
   password = bottle.request.forms.get('password')

   if not username or not password:
      return { 'error' : 'Please specify username and password' }

   session = session_manager.get_session()
   session['valid'] = False

   if password and passwds.get(username) == password:
      session['valid'] = True
      session['name'] = username

   session_manager.save(session)
   if not session['valid']:
      return { 'error' : 'Username or password is invalid' }

   bottle.redirect(bottle.request.get_cookie('validuserloginredirect', '/'))

For a logout, just set the session to invalid:

@route('/auth/logout')
def logout():
   session = session_manager.get_session()
   session['valid'] = False
   session_manager.save(session)
   bottle.redirect('/auth/login')

And a template for "html/login.html":

%if error:
   <fieldset><legend>Notice</legend>{{error}}</fieldset>
%end

<form method="POST" id="form" action="/auth/login">
   Login name: <input type="text" name="username" /><br/>
   Password: <input type="password" name="password" /><br/>
   <input type="submit" value="Login" name="submit" />
</form>