Django rest framework: Obtain auth token using email instead username

Question

I\'m working on a project to enable the django rest framework authentication for mobile devices. I\'m using the default token authentication for get the user token from a po

Answer 1

Write these requirements into your settings.py

ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False

To check, send this json format request to your server:

{
    "username":"youremail@mail.domain",
    "password":"Pa$$w0rd"
}