django-cas | authenticate via a CAS Server | Authentication library

Thanks to this comment on the Django Cassandra Engine issues page for the solution to this problem.

It appears that the DataStax Python Driver interprets unregistered types as plain dictionaries causing them to be deserialized as a series of tuples instead of a proper dictionary, explaining the error message.

The solution is to register the UDTs whenever a connection is initiated. This must be done every time as it does not seem to persist.

To do this, add this code after your UDT class declarations:

https://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/cqlengine/models.html

table_name = None Optional. Sets the name of the CQL table for this model. If left blank, the table name will be the name of the model, with it’s module name as it’s prefix. Manually defined table names are not inherited.

By making cross port requests you're breaking browsers' Same-origin policy. This is done for security reasons.

Browsers also allow you to get around this policy by setting up something called CORS. Basically, you'll have to return a header called Access-Control-Allow-Origin from your backend to tell the browser that you trust the incoming source.

For more information, you can read the linked pages.

During development, I use these settings to listen to cross domain requests:

If anyone is interested in the answer, the solution was overriding AdminSite. Django admin module overrides it's own url redirects, so editing them on /app/urls.py was useless.

Creating an /app/admin.py and extending AdminSite like:

The only change to Wagtail's dependencies between 1.6 and 1.7 was to un-pin html5lib from 0.999999 to 'any <1.0 version'. Newer releases of html5lib seem to be more picky about dependencies, but Wagtail should still work happily on the older versions - so I'd suggest adding html5lib==0.999999 to your dev_requirements.txt.