How can I return user ID with token in Django?

Question

I generate tokens using default view in Django:

url(r\'^login/\', rest_auth_views.obtain_auth_token),

I have a problem because my front-end

Answer 1

You could override rest_framework.authtoken.views.ObtainAuthToken.post in order to get the result you want.

myapp/views.py

from rest_framework.authtoken.views import ObtainAuthToken
from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
from rest_framework.response import Response


class CustomObtainAuthToken(ObtainAuthToken):
    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        response = super(CustomObtainAuthToken, self).post(request, *args, **kwargs)
        token = Token.objects.get(key=response.data['token'])
        return Response({'token': token.key, 'id': token.user_id})

myapp/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

from .views import CustomObtainAuthToken

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^authenticate/', CustomObtainAuthToken.as_view()),
]

Sample results

$ http :8000/authenticate/ username=someuser password=secretpassword
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Allow: POST, OPTIONS
Content-Language: en
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2017 18:30:10 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.5.1
Vary: Accept-Language, Cookie
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

{
    "id": 16, 
    "token": "82e0bc9980a6b2c9a70969b0f8dc974418dda399"
}

The idea here is to override the post method of the ObtainAuthToken view class. Here all I have done is call the parent class to get the token, then look up that token to find the associated user id.

Hope that helps.