How to get backend instance

[variable]

I am currently using python-social-auth and added a backend MyOAuth which BaseOAuth1, inside the BaseOAuth1 class there is a handy oauth_request instance method which I would like to make use of outside of the class.

https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth/blob/master/social/backends/oauth.py

I tried instantiate the class directly but looks like I am missing some context.

Is there a way reference that MyOAuth backend instance? I am expecting something like

request.user.social_auth.get(provider='MyOAuth').backend.oauth_request(...)

[omab]

Try with this:

from social.apps.django_app.utils import load_strategy

strategy = load_strategy(backend='MyOAuth')
social = request.user.social_auth.get(provider='MyOAuth')
backend = social.get_backend(strategy)
backend.oauth_request(...)

[omab]

That last change (not released to pypi yet) introduced a helper to get the backend instance, it should be enough to do:

social = request.user.social_auth.get(provider='MyOAuth')
backend = social.get_backend_instance()

[variable]

when I try your code, I got this error

TypeError: unbound method oauth_request() must be called with MyOAuth instance as first argument (got dict instance instead)

[omab]

My bad, the first snippet returns a backend class, you need to create an instance with backend = backend(strategy=strategy) before calling oauth_request(...).

[variable]

Awesome, thanks, that worked.