From 5e40e50f2b187fe2ff2e8ee63b4e39ece42f1521 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Christie Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:46:09 +0100 Subject: Include import paths throughout docs. Closes #1051. Thanks to @pydanny for the report. --- docs/api-guide/authentication.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/api-guide/authentication.md') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index b1ab4622..f30b16ed 100755 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ The default authentication schemes may be set globally, using the `DEFAULT_AUTHE You can also set the authentication scheme on a per-view or per-viewset basis, using the `APIView` class based views. + from rest_framework.authentication import SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication + from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated + from rest_framework.response import Response + from rest_framework.views import APIView + class ExampleView(APIView): authentication_classes = (SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication) permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,) @@ -157,11 +162,16 @@ The `curl` command line tool may be useful for testing token authenticated APIs. If you want every user to have an automatically generated Token, you can simply catch the User's `post_save` signal. + from django.dispatch import receiver + from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token + @receiver(post_save, sender=User) def create_auth_token(sender, instance=None, created=False, **kwargs): if created: Token.objects.create(user=instance) +Note that you'll want to ensure you place this code snippet in an installed `models.py` module, or some other location that will be imported by Django on startup. + If you've already created some users, you can generate tokens for all existing users like this: from django.contrib.auth.models import User @@ -336,6 +346,10 @@ If the `.authenticate_header()` method is not overridden, the authentication sch The following example will authenticate any incoming request as the user given by the username in a custom request header named 'X_USERNAME'. + from django.contrib.auth.models import User + from rest_framework import authentication + from rest_framework import exceptions + class ExampleAuthentication(authentication.BaseAuthentication): def authenticate(self, request): username = request.META.get('X_USERNAME') -- cgit v1.2.3