On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:02:15 UTC+1, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > > On May 23, 1:12 pm, Roarster <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm developing a site using Django using the built in user > authentication > > module. This is all working fine and users can register, login, etc. on > > the web site with no problems. The plan is to also have companion > > iPhone/Android apps where users can register/login and then access their > > data on the main site. This is where I'm a bit unsure of how to > proceed. > > I've been looking into using TastyPie to create a REST API which I > think > > will work fine for accessing/updating data but I'm not sure if this is > > appropriate for creating new users and authenticating existing users. > > I'm definitly not an expert when it comes to mobile apps, but there > are quite a few known REST (or XMLRPC or else) APIs around that > include at least user authentication - think google (including > youtube, blogger etc), dailymotion, most blogging platforms, etc. > > As far as I'm concerned, I'd definitly use the API for authentication > too (possibly using OAuth). wrt/ registration, well, I have not > checked if any of the above APIs support this, but from your Django > app's POV, it's still all about HTTP requests / responses anyway so > well... > > My 2 cents, really..
Thanks Bruno. I've had a bit more of a look into this and everyone seems to be using OAuth, as you mention. I did try to get this working with the Tastypie API but I couldn't really find any documentation and found it a bit of a struggle. I guess I'll have to look into this further. I've also looked into the public APIs you mention and none of them seem to allow registration (at least not on the public API). I guess since my API will be private (at least initially) I can do what I want, I was just hoping to find out what some other well used apps (e.g. Instagram) might use for communication. Do you think it's possible they just have another REST API they don't disclose? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/68UDvibDrpAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
