Mock djangosaml2

In projects that use djangosaml2 in production environment it is useful to have a mockup authentication system that can be used in development and testing environments i.e. when DEBUG = True.

Install

pip install mockdjangosaml2

Usage

• in project's settings.py:

  if DEBUG:
      INSTALLED_APPS += ('mockdjangosaml2',)
  else:
      INSTALLED_APPS += ('djangosaml2',)
  

• update project's urls.py file to include separate set of patterns for DEBUG = True case:

  if settings.DEBUG:
      urlpatterns += patterns('',
          (r'^saml2/', include('mockdjangosaml2.urls')),
      )
  else:
      urlpatterns += patterns('',
          (r'^saml2/', include('djangosaml2.urls')),
      )
  

• add mock users and their attributes to MOCK_SAML2_USERS in settings.py. It should be formated as sample given in applications settings.py file.