Additional backend API calls after user authorization

[maxtepkeev]

Hi,

Some backends, for example vk or odnoklassniki provide a function (vk_api and odnoklassniki_api) to make additional API calls. In python-social-auth compared to django-social-auth this function now accepts additional backend param, which should be the backend object.

What is the recommended way of getting this object outside the pipeline so that I could pass it to the function to make additional API calls. Should I just import a class and instantiate it or this object is already stored somewhere inside the user object ?

Thx

[omab]

Try with this:

from social.strategies.utils import get_current_strategy

# given a user instance (could be from request.user)
social = user.social_auth.get(provider='vk')
strategy = get_current_strategy()
backend = social.get_backend(strategy)

[maxtepkeev]

Thanks, but social.get_backend(strategy) returns a class, and I needed an instance of that class, so I did social.get_backend(strategy)(strategy=strategy) and got back an instance, and now everything works perfectly.

Maybe it is a good idea to create a wrapper for the code above somewhere to ease access to backend instance object, thanks and feel free to close this issue.

[maxtepkeev]

Helper to get backend instance was introduced in #114 (reference) and it workes perfectly. Closed.