500 Response: authenticate() takes exactly 0 arguments (2 given)

I’m trying to plug this module into askbot and I continue getting an error on authenticate() takes exactly 0 arguments (2 given) which does not make much sense to me since the method clearly is asking for two args. Any help is much appreciated since I’m at my limits here.

Settings

# checkout the documentation for more settings
AUTH_ADFS = {
    'TENANT_ID': 'TENANT_ID',
    'CLIENT_ID': 'AZURE_CLIENT_ID',
    'CLIENT_SECRET': 'AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET',
    'RELYING_PARTY_ID': 'AZURE_CLIENT_ID',
    'AUDIENCE': 'microsoft:identityserver:unique-name',
    'CLAIM_MAPPING': {'first_name': 'given_name',
                      'last_name': 'family_name',
                      'email': 'email'},
    'REDIR_URI': 'https://CSRF_DOMAIN/oauth2/login',
}

Python 2.7, Django 1.8 failure:

Request Method: | GET
-- | --
https://url.com/oauth2/callback?code=lotsofalphnumericcharaterslikeakeyhere&state=Lw%3d%3d&session_state=123c85a7-1234-1234-21c6-12a9a96e123a
1.8.19
TypeError
authenticate() takes exactly 0 arguments (2 given)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django_auth_adfs/views.py in get, line 34
/usr/local/bin/uwsgi
2.7.12
['.',  '',  '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip-19.0.3-py2.7.egg',  '/usr/lib/python2.7',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',  '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',  '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',  '.',  '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/askbot/deps']
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:55:07 +0000

[jobec]

It looks like it’s because in Django 1.8 the signature of authenticate was different.

https://github.com/django/django/blob/c686dd8e6bb3817bcf04b8f13c025b4d3c3dc6dc/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py#L62

And it looks like it’s a missing test in the test suite.

Anyway, Django 1.8 is EOL since April 1, 2018. So you might want to look into upgrading. Same for your python version. Python 2 will be deprecated in a couple of months. https://pythonclock.org/

[mikelnick]

Thanks again @jobec, creating that change in views.py worked, after I adjusted my azure ad settings again, I ended up needing to pass in my client id to CLIENT_ID, RELYING_PARTY_ID, and AUDIENCE. There was a strange issue with the template for login_failed.html not being installed with pip too so I just manually added a file there.