Django: Rest Framework authenticate header

Question

Using Django REST API, I\'m trying to authenticate my request.

This is what I\'m trying to send:

Content-Type: application/json, Authentication: toke         


        

Answer 1

In my case this works:
(Django REST Framework v3)

settings.py

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

views.py

class Test(APIView):
    def get(self, request, format=None):   
        return Response({'Result': 'OK'})

urls.py

router.add_api_view('test', url(r'^test/', views.Test.as_view(),name='test'))

Don't forget to send the token information in the header:

 Key: Authorization  
 Value: Token 76efd80cd6849ad7d35e04f1cc1eea35bdc20294

To generate tokens you can use the following (somewhere in your code):

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