Recipe

1. Extend `rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication` and define which user model it should use.

   from rest_framework_jwt import authentication
   
   class MyJWTAuthentication(authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication):
       user_model = 'some_app.SomeUserModel'

2. Define views that manipulate the token and tell them which user model to use. e.g.:

   from rest_framework_jwt.views import ObtainJSONWebToken, RefreshJSONWebToken
   
   obtain_jwt_token = ObtainJSONWebToken.as_view(user_model='some_app.SomeUserModel')
   
   urlpatterns = router.urls + [
       url(r'^api-token-auth/', obtain_jwt_token, name='auth-jwt-get'),
   ]

3. Use your authentication class in your views.

   class TestView(ViewSet):
       authentication_classes = (MyJWTAuthentication, )

If you don’t want to use default `django.contrib.auth.authenticate` which is using backends defined at `settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS` for all users, you need to write your own authentication handler and tell `JSONWebTokenSerializer` to use it by overriding `JSONWebTokenSerializer.authenticate` method.

class MyJWTSerializer(serializers_jwt.JSONWebTokenSerializer):

    def authenticate(self, **credentials):
        return my_authenticate(**credentials)

# your obtain token view then will look like this
obtain_jwt_token = ObtainJSONWebToken.as_view(
    user_model='some_app.SomeUserModel',
    serializer_class=MyJWTSerializer
)
urlpatterns = router.urls + [
   url(r'^api-token-auth/', obtain_jwt_token, name='auth-jwt-get'),
]

Overview

This package provides JSON Web Token Authentication support for Django REST framework.

If you want to know more about JWT, check out the following resources:

• DjangoCon 2014 - JSON Web Tokens Video | Slides

• Auth with JSON Web Tokens

• JWT.io

Requirements

• Python (2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5)

• Django (1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11)

• Django REST Framework (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

Installation

Install using pip…

$ pip install djangorestframework-jwt

Documentation & Support

Full documentation for the project is available at docs.

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