Authenticating user in Django based classes
I am trying to refactor a django project. So I want to refactor from:
@api_view([GET, POST])
@permission_classes((IsAuthenticated, VehiclePermissions, ))
def inactive_vehicle_view(request):
if request.method == "GET":
con = CBaseUtil.get_prod_instance()
vehicle_bo = VehicleBO()
dongle_dao = OBDDongleDAO(con)
since_days = int(request.GET.get("since", 28))
vehicles = vehicle_bo.find_vehicles_by_user_context(request.user.details)
return Response(vehicles, status=status_code, headers=get_headers(request))
For a class based view like this:
class InactiveVehicleView(View):
@authentication_classes((BasicAuthentication, WebsiteAuthentication))
@permission_classes((IsAuthenticated, VehiclePermissions, ))
def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
return super(InactiveVehicleView, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
def get(self, request):
con = CBaseUtil.get_prod_instance()
vehicle_bo = VehicleBO()
dongle_dao = OBDDongleDAO(con)
since_days = int(request.GET.get("since", 28))
vehicles = vehicle_bo.find_vehicles_by_user_context(request.user.details)
return Response(vehicles, status=status_code, headers=get_headers(request))
The problem I'm running into is that I can't get the user information like in the old version, request.user.details, since the WSGI-Request doesn't contain the user attribute. I think I did something wrong with decorators, but I can't figure it out.
FYI view is rendered in URLs like this:
url(r'^vehicles/inactive/?$', InactiveVehicleView.as_view())
Does anyone have an idea what I did wrong with authentication and / or decorators?
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According to the Django Rest Framework Authentication Docs, your view should be subclassed APIView
and set authentication_classes
and permission_classes
as attributes instead of using decorators.
from rest_framework.views import APIView
class InactiveVehicleView(APIView):
authentication_classes = (BasicAuthentication, WebsiteAuthentication)
permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated, VehiclePermissions)
def get(self, request):
...
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