Upon successful authentication, the credentials received may include an id_token, if the authentication request contained the openid scope. The id_token contains information associated with the authenticated user. You can read more about ID tokens here.
Before you access its contents, you must verify that the ID token has not been tampered with and that it is meant for your application to consume. The TokenVerifier class can be used to perform this verification.
To create a TokenVerifier, the following arguments are required:
- A
SignatureVerifierinstance, which is responsible for verifying the token's algorithm name and signature. - The expected issuer value, which typically matches the Auth0 domain prefixed with
https://and suffixed with/. - The expected audience value, which typically matches the Auth0 application client ID.
The type of SignatureVerifier used depends upon the signing algorithm used by your Auth0 application. You can view this value in your application settings under Advanced settings | OAuth | JsonWebToken Signature Algorithm. Auth0 recommends using the RS256 asymmetric signing algorithm. You can read more about signing algorithms here.
For asymmetric algorithms like RS256, use the AsymmetricSignatureVerifier class, passing
the public URL where the certificates for the public keys can be found. This will typically be your Auth0 domain with the /.well-known/jwks.json path appended to it. For example, https://your-domain.auth0.com/.well-known/jwks.json.
For symmetric algorithms like HS256, use the SymmetricSignatureVerifier class, passing the value of the client secret of your Auth0 application.
The following example demonstrates the verification of an ID token signed with the RS256 signing algorithm:
from auth0.authentication.token_verifier import TokenVerifier, AsymmetricSignatureVerifier
domain = 'myaccount.auth0.com'
client_id = 'exampleid'
# After authenticating
id_token = auth_result['id_token']
jwks_url = 'https://{}/.well-known/jwks.json'.format(domain)
issuer = 'https://{}/'.format(domain)
sv = AsymmetricSignatureVerifier(jwks_url) # Reusable instance
tv = TokenVerifier(signature_verifier=sv, issuer=issuer, audience=client_id)
tv.verify(id_token)If the token verification fails, a TokenValidationError will be raised. In that scenario, the ID token should be deemed invalid and its contents should not be trusted.
from auth0.authentication import GetToken
private_key = """-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIJKQIBAAKCAgEAwfUb0nUC0aKB3WiytFhnCIg455BYC+dR3MUGadWpIg7S6lbi
...
2tjIvH4GN9ZkIGwzxIOP61wkUGwGaIzacOTIWOvqRI0OaYr9U18Ep1trvgGR
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
"""
get_token = GetToken(
"my-domain.us.auth0.com",
"my-client-id",
client_assertion_signing_key=private_key,
)
token = get_token.client_credentials(
"https://my-domain.us.auth0.com/api/v2/"
)Let's see how we can use this to get all available connections.
(this action requires the token to have the following scope: read:connections)
auth0.connections.all()Which will yield a list of connections similar to this:
[
{
'enabled_clients': [u'rOsnWgtw23nje2QCDuDJNVpxlsCylSLE'],
'id': u'con_ErZf9LpXQDE0cNBr',
'name': u'Amazon-Connection',
'options': {u'profile': True, u'scope': [u'profile']},
'strategy': u'amazon'
},
{
'enabled_clients': [u'rOsnWgtw23nje2QCDuDJNVpxlsCylSLE'],
'id': u'con_i8qF5DPiZ3FdadwJ',
'name': u'Username-Password-Authentication',
'options': {u'brute_force_protection': True},
'strategy': u'auth0'
}
]Modifying an existing connection is equally as easy. Let's change the name
of connection 'con_ErZf9LpXQDE0cNBr'.
(The token will need scope: update:connections to make this one work)
auth0.connections.update('con_ErZf9LpXQDE0cNBr', {'name': 'MyNewName'})That's it! Using the get method of the connections endpoint we can verify
that the rename actually happened.
modified_connection = auth0.connections.get('con_ErZf9LpXQDE0cNBr')Which returns something like this
{
'enabled_clients': [u'rOsnWgtw23nje2QCDuDJNVpxlsCylSLE'],
'id': u'con_ErZf9LpXQDE0cNBr',
'name': u'MyNewName',
'options': {u'profile': True, u'scope': [u'profile']},
'strategy': u'amazon'
}Success!
All endpoints follow a similar structure to connections, and try to follow as
closely as possible the API documentation.
When consuming methods from the API clients, the requests could fail for a number of reasons:
- Invalid data sent as part of the request: An
Auth0Erroris raised with the error code and description. - Global or Client Rate Limit reached: A
RateLimitErroris raised and the time at which the limit resets is exposed in thereset_atproperty. When the header is unset, this value will be-1. - Network timeouts: Adjustable by passing a
timeoutargument to the client. See the rate limit docs for details.
This SDK provides async methods built on top of asyncio. To make them available you must have the aiohttp module installed.
Then additional methods with the _async suffix will be added to modules created by the management.Auth0 class or to classes that are passed to the asyncify method. For example:
import asyncio
import aiohttp
from auth0.asyncify import asyncify
from auth0.management import Auth0, Users, Connections
from auth0.authentication import Users as AuthUsers
auth0 = Auth0('domain', 'mgmt_api_token')
async def main():
# users = auth0.users.all() <= sync
users = await auth0.users.all_async() # <= async
# To share a session amongst multiple calls to the same service
async with auth0.users as users:
data = await users.get_async(id)
users.update_async(id, data)
# To share a session amongst multiple calls to multiple services
async with Auth0('domain', 'mgmt_api_token') as auth0:
user = await auth0.users.get_async(user_id)
connection = await auth0.connections.get_async(connection_id)
# Use asyncify directly on services
Users = asyncify(Users)
Connections = asyncify(Connections)
users = Users(domain, mgmt_api_token)
connections = Connections(domain, mgmt_api_token)
# Create a session and share it among the services
session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
users.set_session(session)
connections.set_session(session)
u = await auth0.users.all_async()
c = await auth0.connections.all_async()
session.close()
# Use auth api
U = asyncify(AuthUsers)
u = U(domain=domain)
await u.userinfo_async(access_token)
asyncio.run(main())