Merge pull request #399 from robromano/master

Added login view for users of TokenAuthentication

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/authtoken/serializers.py b/rest_framework/authtoken/serializers.py
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+from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
+from rest_framework import serializers
+
+class AuthTokenSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
+    username = serializers.CharField()
+    password = serializers.CharField()
+
+    def validate(self, attrs):
+        username = attrs.get('username')
+        password = attrs.get('password')
+
+        if username and password:
+            user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
+
+            if user:
+                if not user.is_active:
+                    raise serializers.ValidationError('User account is disabled.')
+                attrs['user'] = user
+                return attrs
+            else:
+                raise serializers.ValidationError('Unable to login with provided credentials.')
+        else:
+            raise serializers.ValidationError('Must include "username" and "password"')
+