What is the proper way to import a custom backend in settings.py? I currently have the following in settings.py:
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('apps.apployment_site.auth.CustomAuth')
where apployment_site is the app, auth is file name, and CustomAuth is the class name.
In my view, I get: ImportError: a doesn't look like a module path
after I run the following code:
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
from apployment_site import *
authenticate(username="username", password="password")
Here's my full settings.py:
"""Django settings for apployment project.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/settings/
For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/
"""
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = '3(a=jr=tfedkqzv3f=495%0$ygxjt332(=n0&h=e2bzh(i#r*j'
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'apployment_site'
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('apps.apployment_site.auth.CustomAuth')
ROOT_URLCONF = 'apployment.urls'
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'apployment.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
make sure it's a tuple:
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('apps.apployment_site.auth.CustomAuth',)
note the comma at the end