How Can I Disable Authentication in Django REST Framework

Question

I\'m working on a store site, where every user is going to be anonymous (well, until it\'s time to pay at least), and I\'m trying to use Django REST Framework to serve the p

Answer 1

To enable authentication globally add this to your django settings file:

'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
),
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
    'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
),

then add the following decorators to your methods to enable unauthenticated access to it

from rest_framework.decorators import authentication_classes, permission_classes

@api_view(['POST'])
@authentication_classes([])
@permission_classes([])
def register(request):
  try:
    username = request.data['username']
    email = request.data['email']
    password = request.data['password']
    User.objects.create_user(username=username, email=email, password=password)
    return Response({ 'result': 'ok' })
  except Exception as e:
    raise APIException(e)