Management commands

Django OAuth Toolkit exposes some useful management commands that can be run via shell or by other means such as cron or Celery.

cleartokens

The cleartokens management command allows the user to remove those refresh tokens whose lifetime is greater than the amount specified by REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_SECONDS settings. It is important that this command is run regularly (eg: via cron) to avoid cluttering the database with expired refresh tokens.

If cleartokens runs daily the maximum delay before a refresh token is removed is REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_SECONDS + 1 day. This is normally not a problem since refresh tokens are long lived.

To prevent the CPU and RAM high peaks during deletion process use CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_SIZE and CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_INTERVAL settings to adjust the process speed.

Note: Refresh tokens need to expire before AccessTokens can be removed from the database. Using cleartokens without REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRE_SECONDS has limited effect.

createapplication

The createapplication management command provides a shortcut to create a new application in a programmatic way.

usage: manage.py createapplication [-h] [--client-id CLIENT_ID] [--user USER]
                                   [--redirect-uris REDIRECT_URIS]
                                   [--client-secret CLIENT_SECRET]
                                   [--name NAME] [--skip-authorization]
                                   [--algorithm ALGORITHM] [--version]
                                   [-v {0,1,2,3}] [--settings SETTINGS]
                                   [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH] [--traceback]
                                   [--no-color] [--force-color]
                                   [--skip-checks]
                                   client_type authorization_grant_type

Shortcut to create a new application in a programmatic way

positional arguments:
  client_type           The client type, one of: confidential, public
  authorization_grant_type
                        The type of authorization grant to be used, one of:
                        authorization-code, implicit, password, client-
                        credentials, openid-hybrid

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --client-id CLIENT_ID
                        The ID of the new application
  --user USER           The user the application belongs to
  --redirect-uris REDIRECT_URIS
                        The redirect URIs, this must be a space separated
                        string e.g 'URI1 URI2'
  --client-secret CLIENT_SECRET
                        The secret for this application
  --name NAME           The name this application
  --skip-authorization  If set, completely bypass the authorization form, even
                        on the first use of the application
  --algorithm ALGORITHM
                        The OIDC token signing algorithm for this application,
                        one of: RS256, HS256
  --version             Show program's version number and exit.
  -v {0,1,2,3}, --verbosity {0,1,2,3}
                        Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output,
                        2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output
  --settings SETTINGS   The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
                        "myproject.settings.main". If this isn't provided, the
                        DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be
                        used.
  --pythonpath PYTHONPATH
                        A directory to add to the Python path, e.g.
                        "/home/djangoprojects/myproject".
  --traceback           Raise on CommandError exceptions.
  --no-color            Don't colorize the command output.
  --force-color         Force colorization of the command output.
  --skip-checks         Skip system checks.

If you let createapplication auto-generate the secret then it displays the value before hashing it.