DRF JWT Authentication

i.e., Django REST Framework with JSON Web Token Authentication. Got the solution from here: http://getblimp.github.io/django-rest-framework-jwt/ http://zqpythonic.qiniucdn.com/data/20141006233346/index.html

$ pip install djangorestframework-jwt

In settings.py:
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
    ),
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication',
        'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
        'rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication',
    ),
}

In urls.py:
from rest_framework_jwt.views import obtain_jwt_token, refresh_jwt_token

urlpatterns = patterns(
    # ...
    url(r'^api-token-auth/', obtain_jwt_token),
    url(r'^api-token-refresh/', refresh_jwt_token)
)

To test:
$ curl -X POST -d "username=admin&password=password123" http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/
$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username":"admin","password":"password123"}' http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/
$ curl -H "Authorization: JWT " http://localhost:8000/protected-url/

Django LDAP Integration

These posts helped me: http://kacperdziubek.pl/python/django-ldap-open-directory-integration/ https://pythonhosted.org/django-auth-ldap/

Install:
$ pip install django-auth-ldap

Then in settings.py, add:
import ldap
from django_auth_ldap.config import LDAPSearch

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'django_auth_ldap.backend.LDAPBackend',
)

AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI = "ldap://my.appauth.com" # ip or host name of Open Directory server
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_DN = "CN=Accounts,OU=US Security,DC=corp,DC=com"
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD = "MySecurePassword"
AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH = LDAPSearch("OU=US Users,dc=corp,dc=com",
    ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "(sAMAccountName=%(user)s)")
AUTH_LDAP_CONNECTION_OPTIONS = {
    # make search fast
    ldap.OPT_REFERRALS: 0
}

AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP = {
    "username": "sAMAccountName",
    "first_name": "givenName",
    "last_name": "sn",
    "email": "mail"
}

The mapping above would result into automatically saving the information to the users table.

Django Notes

1. Backup and seed data using fixtures
# Save data
$ python manage.py dumpdata --format=json myapp > myapp/fixtures/initial_data.json
# Load data
$ python manage.py loaddata vlanapi/fixtures/initial_data.json

2. Open python shell - interactive console
$ python manage.py shell
Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul  1 2016, 15:12:24) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>>

3. Start a project
$ django-admin startproject mysite

4. Start initial migration
$ python manage.py migrate

5. Start server
$ python manage.py runserver

6. Create an app
$ python manage.py startapp newapp

7. Create and run a migration
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate