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Django, jwt authentication in django view, not just DRF

I'd like to use jwt with django (probably https://github.com/davesque/django-rest-framework-simplejwt)

The library documentation and most web blogs on jwt talks about using jwt on DRF authentication.

But we have Django regular views which are not DRF based.

Can I still use one jwt authentication backend for both DRF and regular django views?

Solution

  • No, you cannot. DRF DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES and Django AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS handle auth in Session and Token-based respectively. Besides that, they are a different namespace.