Early example of PyHawk Server APIs

tbd_pyhawk_server.py

import hawk
from hawk.util import HawkException

def credential_lookup(app_id):
    # Config, filesystem, db or some other lookup
    return credentials

server = hawk.Server(req, credential_lookup)

try:
    # Authenticate the request
    artifacts = server.authenticate()
    payload = 'Hello ' + artifacts['ext']
    status = '200 OK'
    
    # Sign our response
    auth = server.header(artifacts,
                         { 'payload': payload,
                           'contentType': 'text/plain' })

    headers = [('Content-Type', 'text/plain'),
               ('Server-Authorization', auth)]

    # Send reponse
    start_response(status, headers)

    return payload
except (HawkException):
    start_response('401 Unauthorized', [])
    return 'Please authenticate'