Package restkit :: Module oauth2 :: Class Consumer

Class Consumer

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        Consumer

A consumer of OAuth-protected services.

The OAuth consumer is a "third-party" service that wants to access protected resources from an OAuth service provider on behalf of an end user. It's kind of the OAuth client.

Usually a consumer must be registered with the service provider by the developer of the consumer software. As part of that process, the service provider gives the consumer a *key* and a *secret* with which the consumer software can identify itself to the service. The consumer will include its key in each request to identify itself, but will use its secret only when signing requests, to prove that the request is from that particular registered consumer.

Once registered, the consumer can then use its consumer credentials to ask the service provider for a request token, kicking off the OAuth authorization process.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, key, secret)
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__str__(self)
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