[open-ils-commits] r7792 - trunk/Open-ILS/src/python/oils/utils

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Author: erickson
Date: 2007-09-16 13:43:09 -0400 (Sun, 16 Sep 2007)
New Revision: 7792

Modified:
   trunk/Open-ILS/src/python/oils/utils/utils.py
Log:
added a login method

Modified: trunk/Open-ILS/src/python/oils/utils/utils.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/Open-ILS/src/python/oils/utils/utils.py	2007-09-15 01:51:00 UTC (rev 7791)
+++ trunk/Open-ILS/src/python/oils/utils/utils.py	2007-09-16 17:43:09 UTC (rev 7792)
@@ -14,20 +14,15 @@
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 import re, md5
+from osrf.ses import osrfAtomicRequest
+from osrf.log import *
 
 
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Grab-bag of general utility functions
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-
-# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# more succinct search/replace call
-# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-def replace(str, pattern, replace):
-   return re.compile(pattern).sub(replace, str)
-
-
 def isEvent(evt):
     return (evt and isinstance(evt, dict) and evt.get('ilsevent') != None)
 
@@ -54,3 +49,26 @@
         o[x] = 1
     return o.keys()
 
+
+def login(username, password, type=None, workstation=None):
+    ''' Login to the server and get back an authtoken'''
+
+    osrfLogInfo("attempting login with user " + username)
+
+    seed = osrfAtomicRequest(
+        'open-ils.auth', 
+        'open-ils.auth.authenticate.init', username)
+
+    # generate the hashed password
+    password = md5sum(seed + md5sum(password))
+
+    return osrfAtomicRequest(
+        'open-ils.auth',
+        'open-ils.auth.authenticate.complete',
+        {   'workstation' : workstation,
+            'username' : username,
+            'password' : password,
+            'type' : type
+        }
+    )
+