Authentication credentials were not provided with Django Rest Framework JWT - django

Question

I am having trouble implementing token authentication with JWT in the Django rest framework with a Typscript frontend. I'm getting
{detail: "Authentication credentials were not provided."}
with my API call via Typescript, which is:
readonly BASE_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/'
api_url = this.BASE_URL + 'items/'
auth_url = this.BASE_URL + "api-token-auth/"
getItemsService(token) {
const headers = new HttpHeaders()
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json')
headers.append('Authorization', 'JWT ' + token.token)
return this.http.get(this.api_url, {headers: headers})
}
Logging in works fine. It's when I try to load the items that I have issues.
Here's my Django code:
views.py
from rest_framework import generics
from .models import Item
from .serializers import ItemSerializer
class ItemList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
queryset = Item.objects.all()
serializer_class = ItemSerializer
class ItemDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
queryset = Item.objects.all()
serializer_class = ItemSerializer
items/urls.py
from django.urls import path
from .views import ItemList, ItemDetail
urlpatterns = [
path('', ItemList.as_view()),
path('<int:pk>/', ItemDetail.as_view()),
]
project/urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path
from rest_framework_jwt.views import obtain_jwt_token
urlpatterns = [
path('items/', include('groceries.urls')),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls')),
path('api-token-auth/', obtain_jwt_token),
]
settings.py
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
),
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication',
),
}
I thought the issue would have to be with Django, but I am able to get what I expect with
curl -H "Authorization: JWT <token>" http://localhost:8000/items/
If my backend was not set up correctly, this wouldn't work. So it must be my frontend code.

Answer 1

Based on what you described, It may be a CORS issue. Because you have access to your api endpoint via curl command. But not with browser.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell a browser to let a web application running at one origin (domain) have permission to access selected resources from a server at a different origin. A web application makes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, and port) than its own origin.
I checked your Angular typescript code, It seems fine. I suggest to follow below instructions in your django project and see how it goes:
1) install it for pip via pip install django-cors-headers command.
2) In settings.py file, add this app to your installed apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'corsheaders',
...
)
3) You will also need to add a middleware class to listen in on responses:
MIDDLEWARE = [ # Or MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES on Django < 1.10
...
'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
...
]
remember CorsMiddleware should be placed as high as possible.
4) Add this line to your settings.py file.
CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
for full documentation refer to django-cors-headers.