How to make a POST simple JSON using Django REST Framework? CSRF token missing or incorrect

Question

Would appreciate someone showing me how to make a simple POST request using JSON with Django REST framework. I do not see any examples of this in the tutorial anywhere?

Answer 1

It's from your REST Framework settings. in your settings.py file, your REST_FRAMEWORK should have the following.

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
    ),
   'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.permissions.AllowAny',
    ),
}

This will set your REST Framework to use token authentication instead of csrf authentication. And by setting the permission to AllowAny, you can authenticate only where you want to.