django-rest-knox - how to authenticate token for email verification? - django

Question

I am trying to set-up email verification using django-rest-knox. The link is being sent out. When I use the following:
from knox.auth import TokenAuthentication
class VerifyEmailAPI(generics.GenericAPIView):
def get(self, request):
# Get the token from request
# token = request.GET.get('token')
# print(token)
user = TokenAuthentication.authenticate(request, self)
print(user)
return Response({'message': 'Just testing for now'})
The url:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/auth/email-verify/?token=58cab01ad07801dbe5e6c4fc5c6c7ef060bf7912cb723dc70e4c5fb677fbbf1e
I get this error:
AttributeError: 'VerifyEmailAPI' object has no attribute 'META'
Complete traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 55, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 197, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 84, in view
return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 509, in dispatch
response = self.handle_exception(exc)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 469, in handle_exception
self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 480, in raise_uncaught_exception
raise exc
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 506, in dispatch
response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Volumes/coding/fort_dev/accounts/api.py", line 75, in get
user = TokenAuthentication.authenticate(request, self)
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/knox/auth.py", line 37, in authenticate
auth = get_authorization_header(request).split()
File "/Users/sid/eb-virt/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rest_framework/authentication.py", line 20, in get_authorization_header
auth = request.META.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION', b'')
AttributeError: 'VerifyEmailAPI' object has no attribute 'META'
Am I doing something fundamentally wrong when using the django-rest-knox function?