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

I think the good practice will be to return user details in the response of login api.

If your built_in view doesn't return user details you can may be override the post method of obtain_auth_token. I once did this for djangorestframework-jwt obtain token method

def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    serializer = self.get_serializer(data=request.data)

    if serializer.is_valid():
        user = serializer.object.get('user') or request.user
        token = serializer.object.get('token')
        response_data = {
            'token': token,
            'user': UserSerializer(user).data
        }
        response = Response(response_data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
        if api_settings.JWT_AUTH_COOKIE:
            expiration = (datetime.utcnow() +
                          api_settings.JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA)
            response.set_cookie(api_settings.JWT_AUTH_COOKIE,
                                response.data['token'],
                                expires=expiration,
                                httponly=True)
        return response

    return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

by default response_data dict only had token details i added user object as well to achieve what you are trying to do.