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Creating a user and then authenticating as that user using the Python standard library
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| from urllib.request import urlopen, Request | |
| from urllib.parse import quote | |
| from urllib.error import URLError | |
| import json | |
| ADMIN_TOKEN = "6n7faf61b4o8ukcornejciyx7e" | |
| BASE_URL = "https://mattermost.example.com/api/v4" # <= No slash! | |
| def login(username, password): | |
| url = "{}/users/login".format(BASE_URL) | |
| data = { | |
| 'login_id': username, | |
| 'password': password | |
| } | |
| req = Request( | |
| url, | |
| json.dumps(data).encode('ascii'), | |
| {"Content-Type": "application/json"} | |
| ) | |
| try: | |
| response = urlopen(req) | |
| token = response.headers['Token'] | |
| json_response = json.load(response) | |
| return token, json_response | |
| except URLError as e: | |
| return False | |
| else: | |
| return False | |
| def http_get(url, token): | |
| full_url = "{}{}".format(BASE_URL, url) | |
| headers = { | |
| "Content-Type": "application/json", | |
| "Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(token) | |
| } | |
| req = Request(full_url) | |
| req.headers = headers | |
| try: | |
| response = urlopen(req) | |
| json_response = json.load(response) | |
| return json_response | |
| except URLError as e: | |
| print(e) | |
| return False | |
| else: | |
| return False | |
| def http_post(url, data, token): | |
| full_url = "{}{}".format(BASE_URL, url) | |
| headers = { | |
| "Content-Type": "application/json", | |
| "Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(token) | |
| } | |
| req = Request( | |
| full_url, | |
| json.dumps(data).encode('ascii'), | |
| headers | |
| ) | |
| try: | |
| response = urlopen(req) | |
| json_response = json.load(response) | |
| return json_response | |
| except URLError as e: | |
| return {'status': e.code} | |
| def main(): | |
| user = { | |
| "email": "e-user@example.com", | |
| "username": "e-user", | |
| "password": "37w8dyxeaojfmxjzihrc5k4gwh" | |
| } | |
| print("Checking to see if user {} exists".format(user['email'])) | |
| url = "/users/email/{}".format(user["email"]) | |
| found_user = http_get(url, ADMIN_TOKEN) | |
| if found_user == False: | |
| url = "/users" | |
| print("Creating user {}".format(user['email'])) | |
| http_post(url, user, ADMIN_TOKEN) | |
| else: | |
| print("User exists!") | |
| print("Authenticating as {} with password {}".format(user['username'], user['password'])) | |
| user_token, user = login(user['username'], user['password']) | |
| print("Got token {}".format(user_token)) | |
| main() |
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