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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/api-guide/authentication.md | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/api-guide/filtering.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 3137b9d4..cb1e2645 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -97,6 +97,21 @@ If successfully authenticated, `TokenAuthentication` provides the following cred **Note:** If you use `TokenAuthentication` in production you must ensure that your API is only available over `https` only. +If you want every user to have an automatically generated Token, you can simply catch the User's `post_save` signal. + + @receiver(post_save, sender=User) + def create_auth_token(sender, instance=None, created=False, **kwargs): + if created: + Token.objects.create(user=instance) + +If you've already created some User`'s, you can run a script like this. + + from django.contrib.auth.models import User + from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token + + for user in User.objects.all(): + Token.objects.get_or_create(user=user) + ## OAuthAuthentication This policy uses the [OAuth 2.0][oauth] protocol to authenticate requests. OAuth is appropriate for server-server setups, such as when you want to allow a third-party service to access your API on a user's behalf. diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md index 14ab9a26..53ea7cbc 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ We can override `.get_queryset()` to deal with URLs such as `http://example.com/ by filtering against a `username` query parameter in the URL. """ queryset = Purchase.objects.all() - username = self.request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('username', None): + username = self.request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('username', None) if username is not None: queryset = queryset.filter(purchaser__username=username) return queryset @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ As well as being able to override the default queryset, REST framework also incl REST framework supports pluggable backends to implement filtering, and provides an implementation which uses the [django-filter] package. -To use REST framework's default filtering backend, first install `django-filter`. +To use REST framework's filtering backend, first install `django-filter`. - pip install -e git+https://github.com/alex/django-filter.git#egg=django-filter + pip install django-filter You must also set the filter backend to `DjangoFilterBackend` in your settings: @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ You must also set the filter backend to `DjangoFilterBackend` in your settings: 'FILTER_BACKEND': 'rest_framework.filters.DjangoFilterBackend' } -**Note**: The currently supported version of `django-filter` is the `master` branch. A PyPI release is expected to be coming soon. ## Specifying filter fields |