Django Open Badge Integration

Installation

pip install -e git://github.com/brianlovesdata/django-obi.git#egg=django_obi

Configuration

Step 0: Include django_obi in your setting file's INSTALLED_APPS.

While you're mucking around in there, include an additional setting, something resembling the following:

MOZBADGES = {
    'hub': 'http://beta.openbadges.org',
    'badge_getter': 'users.badges.get_awarded_badges',
}

Configure urls.py:

    (r'^obi/', include('django_obi.urls')),
    ...
)

Be sure to run the test suite afterwards and make sure everything is kosher.

Badge Getter

Input

The badge getter is going to get called a little something like this:

def some_view(request):
    user = request.user
    if user.is_authenticated():
        badges = badge_getter(request.user)

Your badge_getter method should take a User object and know how to get awarded badges from it.

Output

The badge processer expects badge_getter to output a dictionary looking something like this:

{
    'proud_js_expert' : {
        'name' : 'JavaScript Expert',
        'evidence': 'http://example.com/badge-evidence/user-1/js-expert',
        'image': 'http://example.com/badge-images/js-expert.png',
        'description': 'Awarded for being totally rad at JavaScript',
        'criteria': 'http://example.com/badge-requirements/js-expert',
    },
    'ashamed_cobol_master': { ... },
    'reluctant_java_user': { ... },
}

You are welcome to include other information in the dictionary; at the moment it will be ignored. In future versions it will likely be included as extra metadata passed to the hub.

Usage

Important Note!

The authenticated user must have an email address associated with their account (that is, stored in the auth_user table and accessible by django.contrib.auth.models.User).

Django's site framework must be enabled, and Site.objects.get_current() must provide the issuers name and domain.

In your templates, you need to load django_obi_tags:

...
{% load django_obi_tags %}
...

Then use the send_badges_action inclusion-tag to add a 'Send' button and the neccesary javascript to interact with the Issuer API:

...
{% send_badges_action %}
...

Related Projects

• Mozilla Open Badges project -- https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges