django-rest-framework Authentication Setting up authentication for a specific APIView
Example
Authentication can be set for an specific APIView endpoint, by using the authentication_classes variable:
from rest_framework.authentication import SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView
class ExampleView(APIView):
authentication_classes = (SessionAuthentication, BasicAuthentication)
permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)
def get(self, request):
content = {
'user': unicode(request.user), # `django.contrib.auth.User` instance.
'auth': unicode(request.auth), # None
}
return Response(content)
