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An extension of django rest framework, providing a password reset strategy

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Django Rest Password Reset

This python package provides a simple password reset strategy for django rest framework, where users can request password reset tokens via their registered e-mail address.

The main idea behind this package is to not make any assumptions about how the token is delivered to the end-user (e-mail, text-message, etc...). Instead, this package provides a signal that can be reacted on (e.g., by sending an e-mail or a text message).

This package basically provides two REST endpoints:

  • Request a token
  • Verify (confirm) a token (and change the password)

Quickstart

  1. Install the package from pypi using pip:
pip install django-rest-passwordreset
  1. Add django_rest_passwordreset to your INSTALLED_APPS (after rest_framework) within your Django settings file:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
    'rest_framework',
    ...
    'django_rest_passwordreset',
    ...
)
  1. This package provides two endpoints, which can be included by including django_rest_passwordreset.urls in your urls.py as follows:
from django.conf.urls import url, include


urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^api/password_reset/', include('django_rest_passwordreset.urls', namespace='password_reset')),
    ...
]    

Note: You can adapt the url to your needs.

Endpoints

The following endpoints are provided:

  • reset_password - request a reset password token by using the email parameter
  • reset_password/confirm - using a valid token, the users password is set to the provided password

Signals

  • reset_password_token_created(reset_password_token) Fired when a reset password token is generated
  • pre_password_reset(user) - fired just before a password is being reset
  • post_password_reset(user) - fired after a password has been reset

Example for sending an e-mail

  1. Create two new django templates: email/user_reset_password.html and email/user_reset_password.txt. Those templates will contain the e-mail message sent to the user, aswell as the password reset link (or token). Within the templates, you can access the following context variables: current_user, username, email, reset_password_url. Feel free to adapt this to your needs.

  2. Add the following code, which contains a Django Signal, to your application (see this part of the django documentation for more information on where to put signals).

from django.dispatch import receiver
from django_rest_passwordreset.signals import reset_password_token_created


@receiver(reset_password_token_created)
def password_reset_token_created(sender, reset_password_token, *args, **kwargs):
    """
    Handles password reset tokens
    When a token is created, an e-mail needs to be sent to the user
    :param sender:
    :param reset_password_token:
    :param args:
    :param kwargs:
    :return:
    """
    # send an e-mail to the user
    context = {
        'current_user': reset_password_token.user,
        'username': reset_password_token.user.username,
        'email': reset_password_token.user.email,
        # ToDo: The URL can (and should) be constructed using pythons built-in `reverse` method.
        'reset_password_url': "http://some_url/reset/?token={token}".format(token=reset_password_token.key)
    }

    # render email text
    email_html_message = render_to_string('email/user_reset_password.html', context)
    email_plaintext_message = render_to_string('email/user_reset_password.txt', context)

    msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
        # title:
        _("Password Reset for {title}".format(title="Some website title")),
        # message:
        email_plaintext_message,
        # from:
        "noreply@somehost.local",
        # to:
        [reset_password_token.user.email]
    )
    msg.attach_alternative(email_html_message, "text/html")
    msg.send()
  1. You should now be able to use the endpoints to request a password reset token via your e-mail address. If you want to test this locally, I recommend using some kind of fake mailserver (such as maildump).

Tests

See folder tests/. Basically, all endpoints are covered with multiple unit tests.

Use this code snippet to run tests:

pip install -r requirements_test.txt
python setup.py install
cd tests
python manage.py test

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