return token after registration with django-rest-framework-simplejwt

Question

I'm using django-rest-framework-simplejwt and was wondering if it's possible to return a token after registering a user?

This post has a solution for another jwt package and I was wondering how I could do something similar for simplejwt?

thanks

Answer 1

I just solved my own question. Let me know if you have any comments. Thanks!

serializers.py

class RegisterUserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    """Serializer for creating user objects."""

    tokens = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    class Meta:
        model = models.User
        fields = ('id', 'password', 'email', 'tokens')
        extra_kwargs = {'password': {'write_only': True}}

    def get_tokens(self, user):
        tokens = RefreshToken.for_user(user)
        refresh = text_type(tokens)
        access = text_type(tokens.access_token)
        data = {
            "refresh": refresh,
            "access": access
        }
        return data

    def create(self, validated_data):
        user = models.User(
            email=validated_data['email']
        )
        user.set_password(validated_data['password'])
        user.save()    
        return user

views.py

class UserListView(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    """Handles creating and listing Users."""
    queryset = User.objects.all()

def create(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        serializer = RegisterUserSerializer(data=request.data)
        if serializer.is_valid():
            self.perform_create(serializer)
            return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
        return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

Answer 2

another possible solution is:

in your view

from rest_framework_simplejwt.serializers import TokenObtainPairSerializer
from rest_framework_simplejwt.tokens import AccessToken, RefreshToken


@login_required
def index(request):
    tokenr = TokenObtainPairSerializer().get_token(request.user)  
    tokena = AccessToken().for_user(request.user)
    return render(request,'myview/index.html', {"refresh" : str(tokenr),"access" : str(tokena)} )

I used @login_required just to be sure we have a request.user authenticated, but you could pass a dict instead