Thank you very much! Devin Jeanpierre
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03:46 pm, [email protected] wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I want to authenticate a user in twisted.cred by attempting to log him > >in to > >an online service. If the authentication step of the connection fails, > >the > >user gets no avatar, and if it succeeds, the user gets an avatar, and > >that > >avatar either is or has a reference to that connection. > > > >How would I do this? I can think of two ugly ways: I can use a global > >dictionary mapping avatarIds to protocol instances, and do a lookup on > >that > >dict in the Realm to create the avatar. Otherwise, I can instantiate > >the > >connection as part of the credentials, and keep the reference to it > >around > >when I get the avatar. I'm going ahead with the former, but it's scary. > > > >Another possibility is that perhaps the credentials checker and the > >realm > >could be the same object, and then I could move the global dict into an > >attribute. Would that be a better approach? > > You can do this, but you don't have to. You can also pass the dict to > both the checker initializer and the realm initializer. Now they both > have a reference to it, but it's not global, and they're still separate > objects. > > Jean-Paul > >The background for this is that I have an implementation of the chat > >part of > >the Direct Connect (DC) protocol, and want to write an IRC<->DC bridge. > >I > >chose twisted.words.services on the recommendation of someone, which > >uses > >Cred for auth. DC has authentication as a given nick as part of the > >"handshake" during the start of the connection attempt. > > > >Devin Jeanpierre > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > [email protected] > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >
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