Starting support for OAuth2

[duailibe]

This is the start of the implementation of the support for the OAuth protocol (related to issue #89). This isn't actually completed yet, I'll still work on it for the next days, but I thought it would be good to hear some suggestions and have others contributing while still in the beginning.

I just implemented the first transactions between the server to establish authorization of some application but it still needs some error handling. And, most important, there's need to include the support for the rest of the API operations, by sending the access token.

First, I started following the same implementation before (global variables) but then I thought to do it the best way.

[alastair]

wow, great! thanks for this. I'll take a look at it as you add more functionality and let you know if I have any comments

[sampsyo]

Very nice, @duailibe. This implementation is very straightforward; it seems we don't even really need a dependency on an OAuth2 library (as I would have expected). Cool!

[duailibe]

@alastair please, let me know of any improvements.

@sampsyo I first tried to work out with OAuth2 library, but it seemed too "overkill" for something rather simple. But if anyone thinks it's best to use it, I don't really think it's a bad idea.

[sampsyo]

This seems like a great way to go if it works and remain simple. (I know there are lots of broken OAuth2 libraries out there for Python, so this way we benefit from avoiding those.)

[alastair]

My only concern with spinning our own would be if we inadvertently made any
"common" implementation errors in the process. If you can show that this
isn't the case then I'm OK with it.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Adrian Sampson
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This seems like a great way to go if it works and remain simple. (I know
there are lots of broken OAuth2 libraries out there for Python, so this way
we benefit from avoiding those.)

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[sampsyo]

👍 to that.