Django CSRF Verifcation failed - Class based views

Question

I'm using class-based views.

class UserCreate(View):
    def post(self, request):
        data = request.data.get
        social_id = data('social_id')
        social_source = data('social_source')
        user = User(social_id=social_id, social_source=social_source, access_token=access_token)
        user.save()
        return JsonResponse({'response':200})

Whenever I post data on this URL, it says CSRF token missing or incorrect.

curl -X POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Accept: application/json" -d "{
  \"social_id\": \"string\",
  \"social_source\": \"FB/Gmail\",
  \"access_token\": \"string\"
}" "http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/"

I've had this problem while getting data from the form in function views. There I used to add @csrf_exempt on my view and it would work. When I added @csrf_exempt to my post method, it does not work. How can I post the data?

Answer 1

This is because is class_based views you need to decorate the dispatch method for csrf_exempt to work

class UserCreate(View):
  @method_decorator(csrf_exempt)
  def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    return super(UserCreate, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

  def post():
  ....