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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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  1. The flask.g object is:

    1. A proxy that provides access to the current request.

    2. An instance of the flask_httpauth.HTTPBasicAuth class.

    3. A proxy that allows us to store on this whatever we want to share for one request only.

  2. The passlib package provides:

    1. A password hashing framework that supports more than 30 schemes.

    2. An authentication framework that automatically adds models for users and permissios to a Flask application.

    3. A lightweight web framework that replaces Flask.

  3. The auth.verify_password decorator applied to a function:

    1. Makes this function become the callback that Flask-HTTPAuth will use to hash the password for a specific user.

    2. Makes this function become the callback that SQLAlchmey will use to verify the password for a specific user.

    3. Makes this function become the callback that Flask-HTTPAuth will use to verify the password for a specific user.

  4. When you assign a list that includes auth.login_required to the method_decorators property of any subclass of flask_restful.Resource...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
Read more about Gaston C. Hillar