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David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points
Posted by David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points

JSONWebSignatureSerializer depricated from itsdangerous, use auth-lib instead

Course: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/flask-rest-api/api-protection/generating-tokens

I am following along with this course (in May 2022), however 'itsdangerous' no longer has the JSONWebSignatureSerializer. If you look into the docs it mentions:

Warning Deprecated since version 2.0: ItsDangerous will no longer support JWS in version 2.1. Use a dedicated JWS/JWT library such as authlib.

So now, I am diving into the docs of authlib, but makes the course a lot harder to understand. Any advice on how to proceed?

2 Answers

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

It's very cool you are thinking "around" the course and what sorts of things you'll apply to your future work.

I wouldn't spend a whole lot of time looking through the documentation of authlib until you really need it.

You're going to need JWT to do any serious web programming, but you should avoid writing authentication from scratch. Mostly, you will use "cookbook" approaches to exchanging tokens (and reading vendor documentation and tutorials as well as scanning StackOverflow can be a big help).

I hope this helps!

David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points
David Sampimon
David Sampimon
12,026 Points

Thanks Jeff, for now I decided to focus on the building 'a social network in flask' course and maybe revisit this course once I am more comfortable with the material.