Views: move the base64 encoding to the renderers.

Hard-coding the serialization encoding in the serializers is wrong.
This fix now enables us to change to easily change to msgpack as the
transport layer.

django_etebase/renderers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from rest_framework.utils.encoders import JSONEncoder as DRFJSONEncoder
+from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer as DRFJSONRenderer
+
+from .serializers import b64encode
+
+
+class JSONEncoder(DRFJSONEncoder):
+    def default(self, obj):
+        if isinstance(obj, bytes) or isinstance(obj, memoryview):
+            return b64encode(obj)
+        return super().default(obj)
+
+
+class JSONRenderer(DRFJSONRenderer):
+    """
+    Renderer which serializes to JSON with support for our base64
+    """
+    encoder_class = JSONEncoder

django_etebase/serializers.py

@@ -56,18 +56,19 @@ def b64decode(data):
     return base64.urlsafe_b64decode(data)
 
 
+def b64decode_or_bytes(data):
+    if isinstance(data, bytes):
+        return data
+    else:
+        return b64decode(data)
+
+
 class BinaryBase64Field(serializers.Field):
     def to_representation(self, value):
-        if self.context.get('supports_binary', False):
+        return value
-            return value
-        else:
-            return b64encode(value)
 
     def to_internal_value(self, data):
-        if isinstance(data, bytes):
+        return b64decode_or_bytes(data)
-            return data
-        else:
-            return b64decode(data)
 
 
 class CollectionEncryptionKeyField(BinaryBase64Field):
@@ -91,14 +92,14 @@ class ChunksField(serializers.RelatedField):
         obj = obj.chunk
         if self.context.get('prefetch'):
             with open(obj.chunkFile.path, 'rb') as f:
-                return (obj.uid, b64encode(f.read()))
+                return (obj.uid, f.read())
         else:
             return (obj.uid, )
 
     def to_internal_value(self, data):
         if data[0] is None or data[1] is None:
             raise serializers.ValidationError('null is not allowed')
-        return (data[0], b64decode(data[1]))
+        return (data[0], b64decode_or_bytes(data[1]))
 
 
 class CollectionItemChunkSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

django_etebase/views.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from rest_framework import viewsets
 from rest_framework.decorators import action as action_decorator
 from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser, FormParser, MultiPartParser
-from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer, BrowsableAPIRenderer
+from rest_framework.renderers import BrowsableAPIRenderer
 
 import nacl.encoding
 import nacl.signing
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ from .drf_msgpack.parsers import MessagePackParser
 from .drf_msgpack.renderers import MessagePackRenderer
 
 from . import app_settings, permissions
+from .renderers import JSONRenderer
 from .models import (
         Collection,
         CollectionItem,
@@ -53,7 +54,6 @@ from .models import (
         UserInfo,
     )
 from .serializers import (
-        b64encode,
         AuthenticationChangePasswordInnerSerializer,
         AuthenticationSignupSerializer,
         AuthenticationLoginChallengeSerializer,
@@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ class AuthenticationViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
             challenge = box.encrypt(msgpack_encode(challenge_data), encoder=nacl.encoding.RawEncoder)
 
             ret = {
-                "salt": b64encode(salt),
+                "salt": salt,
-                "challenge": b64encode(challenge),
+                "challenge": challenge,
                 "version": user.userinfo.version,
             }
             return Response(ret, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ class AuthenticationViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
         response = msgpack_decode(response_raw)
         signature = outer_serializer.validated_data['signature']
 
-        context = {'host': request.get_host(), 'supports_binary': True}
+        context = {'host': request.get_host()}
         serializer = AuthenticationLoginInnerSerializer(data=response, context=context)
         serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
 
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ class AuthenticationViewSet(viewsets.ViewSet):
         response = msgpack_decode(response_raw)
         signature = outer_serializer.validated_data['signature']
 
-        context = {'host': request.get_host(), 'supports_binary': True}
+        context = {'host': request.get_host()}
         serializer = AuthenticationChangePasswordInnerSerializer(request.user.userinfo, data=response, context=context)
         serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)