how to access POST data inside tastypie custom Authentication

Question

I\'m trying to write custom Authentication in tastypie. Basically, I want to do the authentication using the post parameters and I don\'t want to use the django auth at all,

Answer 1

You say you need custom auth which is fine but please consider using the Authorization header instead. By using POST you force Django to parse the entire payload assuming the data is either urlencoded or multipart form encoded. This effectively makes it impossible to use non-form payloads such as JSON or YAML.

class MyAuthentication(Authentication):
    def is_authenticated(self, request, **kwargs):
        auth_info = request.META.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION')
        # ...