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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-10-31 15:15:51 +0000
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-11-01 16:51:03 +0000
commit4c8f94ac9433753464c4d8379aae650c3129500d (patch)
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parentMerge pull request #2620 from matrix-org/rav/auth_non_password (diff)
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Allow password_auth_providers to return a callback
... so that they have a way to record access tokens.
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@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ Password auth provider classes may optionally provide the following methods.
     the canonical ``@localpart:domain`` user id if authentication is successful,
     and ``None`` if not.
 
+    Alternatively, the ``Deferred`` can resolve to a ``(str, func)`` tuple, in
+    which case the second field is a callback which will be called with the
+    result from the ``/login`` call (including ``access_token``, ``device_id``,
+    etc.)
+
 ``someprovider.check_password``\(*user_id*, *password*)
 
     This method provides a simpler interface than ``get_supported_login_types``