Django user authentication with Azure AD and app roles

Question

Outline

I want to integrate Azure Active Directory for authentication and authorization.

Question

How do I integrate the msal library into a Django web app, because the official Azure examples are using Flask?

And how to map the AppRoles I have defined in the Azure AD app registration to Django groups defined in the Django backend?

Answer 1

There are samples both for Flask and Django. MSAL itself is framework agnostic so it can be used in any. Regarding the app roles claims you can inspect the acquire_token* methods result. It's a dict containing access_token and/or id_token which will contain the role claim.