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Token authentication not working django rest framework

I am using token authentication for my current project but I have one problem, I can not authenticate a use for the life of me. To test my authentication I created a superuser and then the command python manage.py drf_create_token test1. And then created this view:

class HelloView(APIView):
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated)

    def get(self, request):
        content = {'message': 'Hello, World!'}
        return Response(content)

In my setting.py file I have:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ... # ...
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework.authtoken',
    'backend',
    'frontend'
]

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
        'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
    ],
}

And when I test my API I keep geting:

{
    "detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided."
}

What am I missing here? can anyone tell me? Thank you in advance.

Solution

  • If you use token authentication, then you must send token in all request to server in headers. So, you header request should contain the following entry:

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