drf-cached-token

Django app that that implements a cached version of rest_framework token authentication.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/ueni-ltd/drf-cached-token.git@v0.1.1#egg=drf_cached_token

Add drf_cached_token to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'drf_cached_token',
    ...
)

Configure the app in settings.py, bellow are shown the default settings:
```
DRF_CACHED_TOKEN = {
    'TIMEOUT': None,
    'BACKEND': 'default',
    'REGISTER_SIGNALS': True,
    'TOKEN_QUERY_PARAM': 'api_token',
}
```
- TIMEOUT - timeout for keys in the cache specified in seconds.
- BACKEND - name of the django cache used to store the tokens.
- REGISTER_SIGNALS - boolean indicating wheter the app should register signals that update the cache when the token or user objects are updated, created or deleted.
- TOKEN_QUERY_PARAM - name of the query parameter from which the token will be taken, when using QueryParamsTokenAuthentication.

Usage

You can set it as default in your rest_framework settings:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    ...
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
        'drf_cached_token.authentication.CachedTokenAuthentication',
    ),
    ...
}

Or just use it in your view:

from rest_framework.viewsets import ModelViewSet
from drf_cached_token.authentication import CachedTokenAuthentication


class MyVieSet(ModelViewSet):
    authentication_classes = (CachedTokenAuthentication,)
    ...