Incompatible with Django 4.x

[quorth0n]

Using this package with django 4.x gives the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/pysetup/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rest_framework/settings.py", line 177, in import_from_string
    return import_string(val)
  File "/opt/pysetup/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 30, in import_string
    return cached_import(module_path, class_name)
  File "/opt/pysetup/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 15, in cached_import
    import_module(module_path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/opt/pysetup/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/drf_firebase_auth/authentication.py", line 11, in <module>
    from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
ImportError: cannot import name 'smart_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/opt/pysetup/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)

Smart text has been deprecated since django 3.0 and removed in 4.0. I'm willing to submit a PR that fixes this

[adamduren]

@garyburgmann thank you for your work on this. Any chance we can get this moving forward and a release cut? It is blocking our Django 4.0 upgrade.

[garyburgmann]

Hi Adam, I do certainly need to put some time into this. I will look to pencil in some time Mon 21st and Tue 22nd to do this. Pull requests welcome. Cheers, Gary

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[adamduren]

I believe @quorth0n has addressed the compatibility issue in PR #41

[quorth0n]

@garyburgmann check my PR on this issue, should be good to merge

@adamduren you can set your requirements.txt to install from my fork while we wait for a merge, pip install git+https://github.com/quorth0n/drf-firebase-auth@issue-40

[Llanilek]

It's a shame this hasn't yet made it into a release. Pretty vital update to keep the library current.

@garyburgmann are you still working on this project?

[tarikozket]

smart_text is deleted but they introduced something new called smart_str, you can map smart_text to smart_str to make old libraries work for the time being.

you can do the following in your settings file:

import django
from django.utils.encoding import smart_str

django.utils.encoding.smart_text = smart_str

[garyburgmann]

It's a shame this hasn't yet made it into a release. Pretty vital update to keep the library current.

@garyburgmann are you still working on this project?

Apologies all, I have been out of the Django game for a little while and been slack at maintaining this.

If anyone is interested in being a maintainer here, please ping me.

Will try to review PRs this weekend.

[Llanilek]

@garyburgmann happy to assist where I can with maintaining.