coveo-account-manager

An attempt to use the Coveo search engine as an account database for a website. Simple features include:

1. Account creation
2. Account login
3. Password changes

This should never be used in a real product, this is purely for showing the flexibility of the Coveo search.

Description

This project is meant as a test case to demonstrate the capabilities and flexibility of the Coveo Search. It is meant to replace the traditional database system in a full-stack for a website. So intead of using something like, MySQL or SQLITE to store your usernames and password, this uses Coveo. Of course, that has it's downsides. Account creation and password modification can take up for 60 seconds sometimes. Plus sometimes the dev platform goes down, so that means your login also goes down.

Install

Python:

1. Download/clone this repo
2. Install the dependencies
3. See the example for sample code on how to use

Coveo platform:

1. Create a new Push source
   1. Shared
   2. Create an API key and put it in the config.yml file under push_api_key
   3. Add the name of the source under push_name in the config.yml
   4. Add the ID of the source under source_id in the config.yml
2. Add these mappings:
   1. Map password with %[password]
   2. Map username with %[username]
   3. Map salt with %[salt]
3. Create an API key
   1. Add the permission Search > Execute queries > Enable
   2. Put it in the config.yml file under coveo_api_key
4. Add your organization name under org_id in the config.yml
5. As for the secret in config.yml, just act like a protection paladin and smash your keyboard with random letters

Dependencies

1. pip install pyyaml
2. pip install requests

Examples

Import the manager

from manager import Manager

Then create an instance of the class

manager = Manager()

Once you created your instance, you can do the following things:

# Add a user
manager.add_user(username, password)

# Get a user
manager.get_user(username)

# Validate a user
manager.validate_user(username, password)

# Modify a password
manager.modify_password(username, password, new_password)

# Wait until a user is created
manager.wait_until_user_created(username, timeout=90)

# All function will return a standard message format
# which looks like this
{
    'type' : manager.success or manager.error
    'message' : 'Some message' or {'some' : 'json'}
}

Additional notes

This was tested on Python 2.7.13 using platformdev

Although it SHOULD work on other python version and cloud platforms, I have not tested.