Document that force_auto_coercion() is required for PasswordType

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David Baumgold 2016-06-09 21:31:19 -04:00
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commit 1b89116bc9
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -79,13 +79,14 @@ class Password(Mutable, object):
class PasswordType(types.TypeDecorator, ScalarCoercible):
"""
PasswordType hashes passwords as they come into the database and allows
verifying them using a pythonic interface.
verifying them using a Pythonic interface. This Pythonic interface
relies on setting up automatic data type coercison using the
:func:`~sqlalchemy_utils.listeners.force_auto_coercion` function.
All keyword arguments (aside from max_length) are forwarded to the
construction of a `passlib.context.LazyCryptContext` object, which
also supports deferred configuration via the `onload` callback.
The following usage will create a password column that will
automatically hash new passwords as `pbkdf2_sha512` but still compare
passwords against pre-existing `md5_crypt` hashes. As passwords are
@ -124,6 +125,9 @@ class PasswordType(types.TypeDecorator, ScalarCoercible):
import flask
from sqlalchemy_utils import PasswordType, force_auto_coercion
force_auto_coercion()
class User(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'user'