Request Signer Client

Creating a signed request

You can create a signed URL using the SignedRequestFactory’s build_request_url method:

from request_signer.client.generic import SignedRequestFactory

factory = SignedRequestFactory('http_method', 'client_id', 'private_key')
signed_request_url = factory.build_request_url(post_data_dict_or_none, 'request_url')

Alternatively, you can create a client class to encapsulate dealing with external services:

from request_signer.client.generic import Client

class OurClient(Client):
    domain_settings_name = 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_SERVICE_DOMAIN'
    client_id_settings_name = 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_CLIENT_ID'
    private_key_settings_name = 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_PRIVATE_KEY'

    def do_some_remote_action(self, whatever, args, you, want):
        response = self._get_response('POST', '/service/endpoint/',
            dict(arg1=whatever, arg2=you, arg3=want))
        return response.is_successful

    def get_some_remote_data(self, key):
        response = self._get_response('GET', '/service/endpoint/{key}'.format(key=key))
        return response.json

To use this client class:

client = OurClient()
if client.do_some_remote_action("this", "thing", "rocks", "hard"):
    server_json = client.get_some_remote_data(123)
    print server_json['secret']
else:
    print "fail!"