Support login using Javascript Web Tokens (JWT)

[nikriek]

The flow is not fully tested. I'm open for comments first.

[matrixbot]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[matrixbot]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[matrixbot]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[matrixbot]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[erikjohnston]

Thanks! I'll take a look tomorrow.

Sorry about the matrixbot thing, its a bug in how we're using jenkins :(

[erikjohnston]

@matrixbot ok to test

[erikjohnston]

(Jenkins is now complaining about the fact that jwt isn't installed.)

[nikriek]

Thanks! I'll fix these things if you are ok with the rest.

[nikriek]

I'm using PyJWT for JWT decoding, but I can't get it work with Synapse's dependency management.

[erikjohnston]

@matrixbot ok to test

[erikjohnston]

Some PEP8 warnings: http://matrix.org/jenkins/job/SynapseFlake8Packaging/129/violations/#pep8

[erikjohnston]

LGTM (even jenkins is happy!)

Our unit testing is a bit woeful atm; the bulk of the testing is done via sytest, which is written in Perl. Since this is a fairly simple PR I'm happy to just merge this now and for us to add a sytest for it down the line (unless you're happy writing Perl).

Could you also follow https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#sign-off, i.e. adding Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org> to the commit or simply commenting here?

[nikriek]

Signed-off-by: Niklas Riekenbrauck nikriek@gmail.com

[nikriek]

Thanks!

[erikjohnston]

Thanks! Feel free to open a PR to add yourself to the AUTHORS.rst.