Make BackendWrapper respect backends interface. Refs #53

omab · Oct 10, 2013 · ebaa4b5 · ebaa4b5 · jedmondson · Dec 1, 2013
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diff --git a/social/apps/django_app/utils.py b/social/apps/django_app/utils.py
@@ -42,5 +42,15 @@ def setting(name, default=None):
 
 
 class BackendWrapper(object):
+    # This backends doesn't authenticate, it's just a wrapper to return the
+    # user by the given ID, the user was already authenticated by a previous
+    # backend but since Django 1.6 will enforce backends to be defined on
+    # AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS (which is not a bad idea) this wrapper needs to
+    # be added the setting, until a better solution is found this backends must
+    # be added to the setting, check:
+    #   https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth/issues/53
+    def authenticate(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return None
+
     def get_user(self, user_id):
         return Strategy(storage=Storage).get_user(user_id)