user-authentication-jr 0.0.10

A django app with token based authentication for both Session and API Token

User Authentication with Token and/or Cookie Support

'authentication.models.User' has the following basic fields

username, email, first_name, last_name, is_staff, is_active, date_joined, last_login

Add this to your settings:

• make sure admin app gets rollbacked to zero first

 python manage.py migrate admin zero

• add to INSTALLED_APPS after admin, auth and contenttypes

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
  'django.contrib.admin',
  'django.contrib.auth',
  'django.contrib.contenttypes',
   ...,
   'authentication',
   ]

• to use the User model

  AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'authentication.User'

• add authentication class

DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES = [...., 'authentication.utils.token.ExpiringTokenAuthentication']
REST_FRAMEWORK_TOKEN_SECONDS_EXPIRY = 3600

• add url entry for module to your urls.py

 path('auth/', include('authentication.urls')),

• do migrations

 python manage.py migrate