Cutomize dj_rest_auth Password reset email - django

Question

I want to send customized emails when a user request a password reset. I am using dj_rest_auth with django. Here is what I have done: 1. Defined a custom serializer that inherits from PasswordResetSerializer of dj_rest_auth
class CustomPasswordResetSerializer(PasswordResetSerializer):
def get_email_options(self):
return {
'html_mail_template_name': 'registration/password_reset_email.html',
}
Then in settings.py pointed to this serializer:
REST_AUTH_SERIALIZERS = {
'LOGIN_SERIALIZER': 'users.serializers.CustomLoginSerializer',
'PASSWORD_RESET_SERIALIZER': 'users.serializers.CustomPasswordResetSerializer',
}
Then configured templates in settings.py
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
Then I created templates folder in project root, created a registration folder inside it and placed password_reset_email.html inside it.
This is what I found as an exact solution formy problem after googling some time,but this is not working for me. What did I miss?

Answer 1

This answer helped me
https://stackoverflow.com/a/70624462/15624533
I just put my files (html or txt) directly to templates folder, and changed 'account/email/password_reset_key' to just 'password_reset_key' in send_mail method.

Answer 2

I faced the same challenge and got the solution from this issue on GitHub. https://github.com/iMerica/dj-rest-auth/issues/9 . It's easier than you think
Create your custom password reset serializer
from dj_rest_auth.serializers import PasswordResetSerializer
class CustomPasswordResetSerializer(PasswordResetSerializer):
def save(self):
request = self.context.get('request')
# Set some values to trigger the send_email method.
opts = {
'use_https': request.is_secure(),
'from_email': 'example#yourdomain.com',
'request': request,
# here I have set my desired template to be used
# don't forget to add your templates directory in settings to be found
'email_template_name': 'password_reset_email.html'
}
opts.update(self.get_email_options())
self.reset_form.save(**opts)
If you only want to customize email parameters nothing more or less, you can ignore overriding save() method and override get_email_options() instead
from dj_rest_auth.serializers import PasswordResetSerializer
class MyPasswordResetSerializer(PasswordResetSerializer):
def get_email_options(self) :
return {
'email_template_name': 'password_reset_email.html'
}
then point to your custom serializer in settings.py
REST_AUTH_SERIALIZERS = {
'PASSWORD_RESET_SERIALIZER': 'path.to.your.CustomPasswordResetSerializer'
}