Create custom gsheets connection class to overwrite secrets access

src/login.py

@@ -1,9 +1,28 @@
 import hmac
 import streamlit as st
 from streamlit_gsheets import GSheetsConnection
+from streamlit.runtime.secrets import AttrDict, secrets_singleton
 
 
-conn = st.connection("gsheets", type=GSheetsConnection)
+class HFFriendlyGSheetsConnection(GSheetsConnection):
+    # HF doesnt currently support nested secrets as in secrets.toml
+    # this class overwrites the logic for where to find the secrets and instead creates them from the top level of secrets
+    @property
+    def _secrets(self) -> AttrDict:
+        """Get the secrets for this connection from the corresponding st.secrets section.
+
+        We expect this property to be used primarily by connection authors when they
+        are implementing their class' ``_connect`` method. User scripts should, for the
+        most part, have no reason to use this property.
+        """
+        connections_section = None
+        if secrets_singleton.load_if_toml_exists():
+            connections_section = secrets_singleton
+
+        return AttrDict(connections_section)
+
+
+conn = st.connection("gsheets", type=HFFriendlyGSheetsConnection)
 
 
 def get_user_id_from_email_if_exists(email: str) -> int: