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af11
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Webhook Tutorial Error
I downloaded the code (https://github.com/dropbox/mdwebhook) and am trying to make this application work on my IDE. The site is up but when I press on the button to connect to Dropbox, I get this er...
- 3 years ago
Thanks, that's helpful. It looks like you're running this sample project with the latest version of the 'dropbox' package (currently v11.25.0), however this sample project was only written for an older version. Attempting to use it with the latest version will fail like this due to subsequent changes in the 'dropbox' package.
So, to run this sample project, you should install the project requirements as listed in the project here (which specifies 'dropbox==9.4.0'). The instructions for the sample project show how to install the requirements. (You may want to use something like virtualenv though.)
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
The 'mdwebhook' project doesn't contain any reference of 'SecureCookieSession', so can you share the full stack trace and relevant code for context? Thanks!
af11
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
from hashlib import sha256
import hmac
import json
import os
import threading
import urllib.parse
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from dropbox import Dropbox, DropboxOAuth2Flow
from dropbox.files import DeletedMetadata, FolderMetadata, WriteMode
from flask import abort, Flask, redirect, render_template, Response, request, session, url_for
from markdown import markdown
import redis
load_dotenv()
redis_url = os.environ.get('REDISTOGO_URL')
redis_client = redis.from_url(redis_url, decode_responses=True)
# App key and secret from the App console (dropbox.com/developers/apps)
APP_KEY = os.environ.get('APP_KEY')
APP_SECRET = os.environ.get('APP_SECRET')
app = Flask(__name__)
app.debug = True
# A random secret used by Flask to encrypt session data cookies
app.secret_key = os.environ.get('FLASK_SECRET_KEY')
def get_url(route):
'''Generate a proper URL, forcing HTTPS if not running locally'''
host = urllib.parse.urlparse(request.url).hostname
url = url_for(
route,
_external=True,
_scheme='http' if host in ('127.0.0.1', 'localhost') else 'https'
)
return url
def get_flow():
return DropboxOAuth2Flow(
APP_KEY,
APP_SECRET,
get_url('oauth_callback'),
session,
'dropbox-csrf-token')
@app.route('/welcome')
def welcome():
return render_template('welcome.html', redirect_url=get_url('oauth_callback'),
webhook_url=get_url('webhook'), home_url=get_url('index'), app_key=APP_KEY)
@app.route('/oauth_callback')
def oauth_callback():
'''Callback function for when the user returns from OAuth.'''
auth_result = get_flow().finish(request.args)
account = auth_result.account_id
access_token = auth_result.access_token
# Extract and store the access token for this user
redis_client.hset('tokens', account, access_token)
process_user(account)
return redirect(url_for('done'))
def process_user(account):
'''Call /files/list_folder for the given user ID and process any changes.'''
# OAuth token for the user
token = redis_client.hget('tokens', account)
# cursor for the user (None the first time)
cursor = redis_client.hget('cursors', account)
dbx = Dropbox(token)
has_more = True
while has_more:
if cursor is None:
result = dbx.files_list_folder(path='')
else:
result = dbx.files_list_folder_continue(cursor)
for entry in result.entries:
# Ignore deleted files, folders, and non-markdown files
if (isinstance(entry, DeletedMetadata) or
isinstance(entry, FolderMetadata) or
not entry.path_lower.endswith('.md')):
continue
# Convert to Markdown and store as <basename>.html
_, resp = dbx.files_download(entry.path_lower)
html = markdown(resp.content.decode("utf-8"))
dbx.files_upload(bytes(html, encoding='utf-8'), entry.path_lower[:-3] + '.html', mode=WriteMode('overwrite'))
# Update cursor
cursor = result.cursor
redis_client.hset('cursors', account, cursor)
# Repeat only if there's more to do
has_more = result.has_more
@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html')
@app.route('/login')
def login():
return redirect(get_flow().start())
@app.route('/done')
def done():
return render_template('done.html')
@app.route('/webhook', methods=['GET'])
def challenge():
'''Respond to the webhook challenge (GET request) by echoing back the challenge parameter.'''
resp = Response(request.args.get('challenge'))
resp.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
resp.headers['X-Content-Type-Options'] = 'nosniff'
return resp
@app.route('/webhook', methods=['POST'])
def webhook():
'''Receive a list of changed user IDs from Dropbox and process each.'''
# Make sure this is a valid request from Dropbox
signature = request.headers.get('X-Dropbox-Signature')
key = bytes(APP_SECRET, encoding="ascii")
computed_signature = hmac.new(key, request.data, sha256).hexdigest()
if not hmac.compare_digest(signature, computed_signature):
abort(403)
for account in json.loads(request.data)['list_folder']['accounts']:
# We need to respond quickly to the webhook request, so we do the
# actual work in a separate thread. For more robustness, it's a
# good idea to add the work to a reliable queue and process the queue
# in a worker process.
threading.Thread(target=process_user, args=(account,)).start()
return ''
if __name__=='__main__':
app.run(debug=True)
and here is the traceback to the error:
TypeError
TypeError: 'SecureCookieSession' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
Traceback (most recent call last)
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2091, in __call__
return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2076, in wsgi_app
response = self.handle_exception(e)
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 2073, in wsgi_app
response = self.full_dispatch_request()
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1518, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1516, in full_dispatch_request
rv = self.dispatch_request()
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\flask\app.py", line 1502, in dispatch_request
return self.ensure_sync(self.view_functions[rule.endpoint])(**req.view_args)
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\app.py", line 112, in login
return redirect(get_flow().start())
- File "C:\Users\Sari\PycharmProjects\ccc-changes\venv\Lib\site-packages\dropbox\oauth.py", line 440, in start
self.session[self.csrf_token_session_key] = csrf_token
TypeError: 'SecureCookieSession' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
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Thank you so much!
- Greg-DB3 years agoDropbox Staff
Thanks, that's helpful. It looks like you're running this sample project with the latest version of the 'dropbox' package (currently v11.25.0), however this sample project was only written for an older version. Attempting to use it with the latest version will fail like this due to subsequent changes in the 'dropbox' package.
So, to run this sample project, you should install the project requirements as listed in the project here (which specifies 'dropbox==9.4.0'). The instructions for the sample project show how to install the requirements. (You may want to use something like virtualenv though.)
- af113 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Thank you so much!
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