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Database

The most natural way for storing tokens is of course the very same database you're using for your application. In this strategy, we set up a table (or collection) for storing those tokens with the associated user id. On each request, we try to retrive this token from the database to get the corresponding user id.

Configuration

The configuration of this strategy is a bit more complex than the others as it requires you to configure models and a database adapter, exactly like we did for users.

Database adapters

An access token will be structured like this in your database:

  • token (str) – Unique identifier of the token. It's generated automatically upon login by the strategy.
  • user_id (ID) – User id. of the user associated to this token.
  • created_at (datetime) – Date and time of creation of the token. It's used to determine if the token is expired or not.

We are providing a base model with those fields for each database we are supporting.

SQLAlchemy

We'll expand from the basic SQLAlchemy configuration.

from typing import AsyncGenerator

from fastapi import Depends
from fastapi_users.db import SQLAlchemyBaseUserTableUUID, SQLAlchemyUserDatabase
from fastapi_users_db_sqlalchemy.access_token import (
    SQLAlchemyAccessTokenDatabase,
    SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTableUUID,
)
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession, create_async_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import DeclarativeMeta, declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

DATABASE_URL = "sqlite+aiosqlite:///./test.db"
Base: DeclarativeMeta = declarative_base()


class User(SQLAlchemyBaseUserTableUUID, Base):
    pass


class AccessToken(SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTableUUID, Base):  # (1)!
    pass


engine = create_async_engine(DATABASE_URL)
async_session_maker = sessionmaker(engine, class_=AsyncSession, expire_on_commit=False)


async def create_db_and_tables():
    async with engine.begin() as conn:
        await conn.run_sync(Base.metadata.create_all)


async def get_async_session() -> AsyncGenerator[AsyncSession, None]:
    async with async_session_maker() as session:
        yield session


async def get_user_db(session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_async_session)):
    yield SQLAlchemyUserDatabase(session, User)


async def get_access_token_db(
    session: AsyncSession = Depends(get_async_session),
):  # (2)!
    yield SQLAlchemyAccessTokenDatabase(session, AccessToken)

  1. We define an AccessToken ORM model inheriting from SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTableUUID.

  2. We define a dependency to instantiate the SQLAlchemyAccessTokenDatabase class. Just like the user database adapter, it expects a fresh SQLAlchemy session and the AccessToken model class we defined above.

user_id foreign key is defined as UUID

By default, we use UUID as a primary key ID for your user, so we follow the same convention to define the foreign key pointing to the user.

If you want to use another type, like an auto-incremented integer, you can use SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTable as base class and define your own user_id column.

class AccessToken(SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTable[int], Base):
    @declared_attr
    def user_id(cls):
        return Column(Integer, ForeignKey("user.id", ondelete="cascade"), nullable=False)

Notice that SQLAlchemyBaseAccessTokenTable expects a generic type to define the actual type of ID you use.

Beanie

We'll expand from the basic Beanie configuration.

import motor.motor_asyncio
from beanie import PydanticObjectId
from fastapi_users.db import BeanieBaseUser, BeanieUserDatabase
from fastapi_users_db_beanie.access_token import (
    BeanieAccessTokenDatabase,
    BeanieBaseAccessToken,
)

DATABASE_URL = "mongodb://localhost:27017"
client = motor.motor_asyncio.AsyncIOMotorClient(
    DATABASE_URL, uuidRepresentation="standard"
)
db = client["database_name"]


class User(BeanieBaseUser):
    pass


class AccessToken(BeanieBaseAccessToken[PydanticObjectId]):  # (1)!
    pass


async def get_user_db():
    yield BeanieUserDatabase(User)


async def get_access_token_db():  # (2)!
    yield BeanieAccessTokenDatabase(AccessToken)

  1. We define an AccessToken ODM model inheriting from BeanieBaseAccessToken. Notice that we set a generic type to define the type of the user_id reference. By default, it's a standard MongoDB ObjectID.

  2. We define a dependency to instantiate the BeanieAccessTokenDatabase class. Just like the user database adapter, it expects the AccessToken model class we defined above.

Strategy

import uuid

from fastapi import Depends
from fastapi_users.authentication.strategy.db import AccessTokenDatabase, DatabaseStrategy

from .db import AccessToken, User


def get_database_strategy(
    access_token_db: AccessTokenDatabase[AccessToken] = Depends(get_access_token_db),
) -> DatabaseStrategy:
    return DatabaseStrategy(access_token_db, lifetime_seconds=3600)

As you can see, instantiation is quite simple. It accepts the following arguments:

  • database (AccessTokenDatabase): A database adapter instance for AccessToken table, like we defined above.
  • lifetime_seconds (int): The lifetime of the token in seconds.

Why it's inside a function?

To allow strategies to be instantiated dynamically with other dependencies, they have to be provided as a callable to the authentication backend.

As you can see here, this pattern allows us to dynamically inject a connection to the database.

Logout

On logout, this strategy will delete the token from the database.

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