ANanthonyb·Nov 18, 2012
Well, except that the login process for Django has a lot more people looking at it, and you know that the parts are going to work together pretty well.
For example, Flask-Login (https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login/blob/master/fla...) imports md5 and sha1 - not a very good sign. How do I make it use something sane? Well, there's Flask-Bcrypt, which provides bcrypt hashing... except that it makes no mention of Flask-Login or how to integrate it. Flask-Login also doesn't mention Flask-Bcrypt.
So... you're back to hacking on or digging into Flask-Login to figure out how it works and making it use Bcrypt or some other hashing algorithm.
Wait - I just realised that Flask-Login doesn't handle storing user data or models, or checking passwords, just logging them in. So what do I need for that? Is that Flask-Principal? And just WTH is an
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IdentityContext, anyway?
An IdentityContext is the context of a certain identity
against a certain Permission. It can be used as a
context manager, or a decorator.
You see why people use Django now? :) Sometimes you just want the standard user-logging-in-and-storing-in-the-database without having to write it yourself.