Django Rest Framework Token Authentication

Question

I have read the Django Rest Framework Guides and done all the tutorials. Everything seemed to make sense and work just how it should. I got basic and session authentication

Answer 1

Just to add my two cents to this, if you've got a custom user manager that handles user creation (and activation), you may also perform this task like so:

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
# Other imports

class UserManager(BaseUserManager):

    def create_user(self, **kwargs):
        """
        This is your custom method for creating user instances. 
        IMHO, if you're going to do this, you might as well use a signal.

        """
        # user = self.model(**kwargs) ...
        Token.objects.create(user=user)

    #You may also choose to handle this upon user activation. 
    #Again, a signal works as well here.

    def activate_user(**kwargs):
        # user = ...
        Token.objects.create(user=user)

If you already have users created, then you may drop down into the python shell in your terminal and create Tokens for all the users in your db.

>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token 
>>> for user in User.objects.all():
>>> ...    Token.objects.create(user=user)

Hope that helps.