django-social-auth on google app engine

Question

I'm having trouble getting django-social-auth to work with a Django app that I'm deploying on Google's App Engine using the djangoappengine and django-nonrel.

I'm a noob at this and its quite complex for me ! I started with the django-nonrel template using this video and though I get the login page, it always gives me the error - Incorrect authentication service. If I do not define the Consumer Key and Secret for Google-oauth2, then I get an invalid client error on Google's page.

When I run test social_auth, I am getting FAILED(errors=9) with the issue Ensure that the backend for the testcase gets cached. and self.assertTrue(self.user) AssertionError: None is not true for all the errors.

Could someone please tell direct me to what I should do next to get this to work? Thanks a ton!

Answer 1

I just fell into this problem and think that even if you have already solved this problem, it would be helpful for others if an answer exists.

Go to httplib2 homepage and download the latest version. Extract the archive and move the inner httplib2 folder (found inside python2 sub-folder), in your projects main folder. Then finally add 'httplib2', in your INSTALLED_APPS section, on top of the social_auth's dependencies.

For example here is my INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'djangotoolbox',
    'autoload',
    'dbindexer',
    'httplib2',#    These 4 are
    'openid',#      what u need to
    'oauth2',#      integrate social_auth plug
    'social_auth',# in your GAE project
    'myapp',
    'djangoappengine',
)

Note: you also have to place in your projects folder: openid, oauth2 and social_auth, because there is no way afaik you can install them on GAE.

Answer 2

Thanks a lot for your answer Thodoris,

Just for completion:

• OAuth2
• OpenID