django-rest-auth 0.1

Create a set of REST API endpoints for Authentication and Registration

django-rest-auth
=====

Since the introduction of django-rest-framework, Django apps have been able to serve up app-level REST API endpoints. As a result, we saw a lot of instances where developers implemented their own REST registration API endpoints here and there, snippets, and so on. We aim to solve this demand by providing django-rest-auth, a set of REST API endpoints to handle User Registration and Authentication tasks. By having these API endpoints, your client apps such as AngularJS, iOS, Android, and others can communicate to your Django backend site independently via REST APIs for User Management. Of course, we'll add more API endpoints as we see the demand.

Features
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1. User Registration with activation
2. Login/Logout
3. Retrieve/Update the Django User & user-defined UserProfile model
4. Password change
5. Password reset via e-mail

Installation
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1. This project needs the following packages

> django-registration>=1.0
>
> djangorestframework>=2.3.13

2. Install this package.

3. Add rest_auth app to INSTALLED\_APPS in your django settings.py

> INSTALLED\_APPS = (
>
> ...,
>
> 'rest_auth',
> )

4. This project depends on django-rest-framework library, therefore the following REST_FRAMEWORK settings needs to be entered in your Django settings.py::

> REST_FRAMEWORK = {
>
> 'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
> 'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
> ),
>
> 'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
> 'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated'
> )
> }

5. Lastly, this project accepts the following Django setting values. You can set the UserProfile model and/or create your own REST registration backend for django-registration.

> REST\_REGISTRATION\_BACKEND = 'rest\_auth.backends.rest\_registration.RESTRegistrationView'
>
> REST\_PROFILE\_MODULE = 'accounts.UserProfile'

6. You're good to go now!

API endpoints without Authentication
------------------------------------

1. /rest\_accounts/register/ - POST

Parameters

username, password, email, first\_name, last\_name

2. /rest\_accounts/password/reset/ - POST

Parameters

email

3. /rest\_accounts/password/reset/confirm/{uidb64}/{token}/ - POST

Django URL Keywords

uidb64, token

Parameters

new\_password1, new\_password2

4. /rest\_accounts/login/ - POST

Parameters

username, password

5. /rest\_accounts/verify-email/{activation\_key}/ - GET

Django URL Keywords

activation_key

API endpoints with Authentication
------------------------------------

1. /rest\_accounts/logout/ - GET

2. /rest\_accounts/user/ - GET & POST

GET Parameters

POST Parameters

user as dictionary with id, email, first\_name, last\_name

Ex) "user": {"id": 1, "first\_name": "Person", "last\_name": "2"}

user-defined UserProfile model fields

3. /rest\_accounts/password/change/ - POST

Parameters

new\_password1, new\_password2