drf-jwt
JSON Web Token based authentication using Django REST Framework,
the JWT encoded in base64 is put in the headers:
Authorization: Bearer <token>
install:
pip install django-rest-jwt
let JWT do the authentification:
add 'drf_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication' in authentication classes:
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
'drf_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication',
]make endpoints to login and get the JWT:
from drf_jwt.controllers import Auth
urlpatterns = [
path('api/login', Auth.as_view()),
]suport GET and POST
POST:
{ login, password }
login will be the username of the authenticate function of django
GET:
return a JWT token if you are authenticate
so, one could do a Basic Authentication to the GET endpoints to receve a JWT