Django rest framework with Djoser token authentication token response - django

Question

As i am using a third party package called djoser to handle the token authentication. i want to customise the response. But after trying to change it, the result is not what i wanted.
I just wanted to get the token value of the token instead of having "auth_token:" in front.
Here is the link to djoser: https://github.com/sunscrapers/djoser
Here is my code :
serializer.py
class TokenCreateSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
password = serializers.CharField(
required=False, style={'input_type': 'password'}
)
default_error_messages = {
'invalid_credentials': constants.INVALID_CREDENTIALS_ERROR,
'inactive_account': constants.INACTIVE_ACCOUNT_ERROR,
}
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(TokenCreateSerializer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.user = None
self.fields[User.USERNAME_FIELD] = serializers.CharField(
required=False
)
def validate(self, attrs):
self.user = authenticate(
username=attrs.get(User.USERNAME_FIELD),
password=attrs.get('password')
)
self._validate_user_exists(self.user)
self._validate_user_is_active(self.user)
return attrs
def _validate_user_exists(self, user):
if not user:
self.fail('invalid_credentials')
def _validate_user_is_active(self, user):
if not user.is_active:
self.fail('inactive_account')
views.py
class TokenCreateView(utils.ActionViewMixin, generics.GenericAPIView):
"""
Use this endpoint to obtain user authentication token.
"""
serializer_class = settings.SERIALIZERS.token_create
permission_classes = [permissions.AllowAny]
def _action(self, serializer):
token = utils.login_user(self.request, serializer.user)
token_serializer_class = settings.SERIALIZERS.token
return Response(
data=token_serializer_class(token).data,
status=status.HTTP_200_OK,
)
my custom views.py
class CustomTokenCreateView(utils.ActionViewMixin, generics.GenericAPIView):
"""
Use this endpoint to obtain user authentication token.
"""
serializer_class = TokenCreateSerializer
permission_classes = [permissions.AllowAny]
def _action(self, serializer):
token = utils.login_user(self.request, serializer.user)
token_serializer_class = settings.SERIALIZERS.token
content = {
'Token': token_serializer_class(token).data,
'promptmsg': 'You have successfully login',
'status': '200'
}
return Response(
data=content,
status=status.HTTP_200_OK,
)
Result from djoser token authentication:
Success :
{
"auth_token": "da57cd11c34cb4332eaa6cc2cac797d0ee95cafb"
}
Result from my edited djoser authentication
Success:
{
"Token": {
"auth_token": "da57cd11c34cb4332eaa6cc2cac797d0ee95cafb"
},
"promptmsg": "You have successfully login",
"status": "200"
}
The result i want
Success:
{
"Token": "da57cd11c34cb4332eaa6cc2cac797d0ee95cafb",
"promptmsg": "You have successfully login",
"status": "200"
}
Is there a way to remove the auth_token tag ? i do not mind if its auth_token but as long as the format is what it is expected

Answer 1

Try this to access the value:
content = {
'Token': token_serializer_class(token).data["auth_token"],
'promptmsg': 'You have successfully login',
'status': '200'
}
That way you are not assigning the entire object.