aarose / spa_test

Simple GAE backend for users with token auth and AngularJS frontend

Areas for Improvement

1. Tests for backend

2. Tests for frontend

3. Adding messaging backend, and hooking it up to the frontend

4. Automatic token expiry after certain time

References

http://blog.abahgat.com/2013/01/07/user-authentication-with-webapp2-on-google-app-engine/

http://blog.nknj.me/token-authentication-django-and-angular

Sample curl for the backend

Create user

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Doe", "email":"[email protected]", "password": "test"}' "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/signup"

Sample response:

{"status": "ok", "data": Null}

Login as new user

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"email":"[email protected]", "password": "test"}' "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/login"

Sample response:

{"status": "ok", "data": {"auth_token": "a8a43fd309489c386b54c47fb5fbc1b8a375a3ec"}}

Returns the auth token to use while logged in.

Logout user

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Token a8a43fd309489c386b54c47fb5fbc1b8a375a3ec" -X GET "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/logout"

Sample response:

{"status": "ok", "data": Null}

Token cannot be re-used.

Get other users

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Token a8a43fd309489c386b54c47fb5fbc1b8a375a3ec" -X GET "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/users"