Django Rest Framework Token Authentication

Question

I have read the Django Rest Framework Guides and done all the tutorials. Everything seemed to make sense and work just how it should. I got basic and session authentication

Answer 1

There is a cleaner way to get the user token.

simply run manage.py shell

and then

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
u = User.objects.get(username='admin')
token = Token.objects.create(user=u)
print token.key

then a record should be found in table DB_Schema.authtoken_token