From 8df71f4d1d9a8a3df8e053d99340fbe5bf78b8ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mjumbe Wawatu Poe Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:19:15 -0400 Subject: Get rid of the BaseToken abstract model --- docs/api-guide/authentication.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/api-guide/authentication.md') diff --git a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md index 5f176d02..45da2c55 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/authentication.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/authentication.md @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If successfully authenticated, `TokenAuthentication` provides the following cred * `request.user` will be a `django.contrib.auth.models.User` instance. * `request.auth` will be a `djangorestframework.tokenauth.models.BasicToken` instance. -To use the `TokenAuthentication` policy, you must have a token model. Django REST Framework comes with a minimal default token model. To use it, include `djangorestframework.tokenauth` in your installed applications and sync your database. To use your own token model, subclass the `djangorestframework.tokenauth.TokenAuthentication` class and specify a `model` attribute that references your custom token model. The token model must provide `user`, `key`, and `revoked` attributes. For convenience, the `djangorestframework.tokenauth.models.BaseToken` abstract model implements this minimum contract, and also randomly populates the key field when none is provided. +To use the `TokenAuthentication` policy, you must have a token model. Django REST Framework comes with a minimal default token model. To use it, include `djangorestframework.tokenauth` in your installed applications and sync your database. To use your own token model, subclass the `djangorestframework.tokenauth.TokenAuthentication` class and specify a `model` attribute that references your custom token model. The token model must provide `user`, `key`, and `revoked` attributes. Refer to the `djangorestframework.tokenauth.models.BasicToken` model as an example. ## OAuthAuthentication -- cgit v1.2.3