This week I have been continuing working on the user registration system. I discovered a bug where users are able to sign in with another account when they are already signed in, which would consistently break the webapp. I figured out a solution by inserting custom functions into the django social auth sign in pipeline. In order to streamline the sign in process for the users and avoid needing to repeatedly call a method for all view methods to retrieve user information, I scrapped the UserInfoFetcher I wrote previously. After investigating through the python-social-auth source code, I was able to create custom functions and insert them into the oauth pipeline. By also creating a custom User model, I am able to save users’ profile pictures and emails (which sometimes are not provided by default) into request.user without needing to manually fetch them. I also worked on some html pages to create a usable webapp and started working on the recipe page where people can get auto-generated grocery lists. In addition, I was able to work with Jay to debug some code and help Keaton setup his Django environment so that he can work on some css/bootstrap.
For next week, I will continue working on the recipe page and try my best to finish a working version before the demo day. I will also start working on the API endpoint for updating inventories. I have come up with a detailed design for the transmission encryption and I will discuss it next week.