Tokenauth developed for django rest token authentication. It enables you to define expiration time and token prefix. Tokens generate with random data and it use SHA-256 algorithm.

on Pypi

pip install tokenauth

on Github

git clone [email protected]:ahmetkotan/tokenauth.git
cd tokenauth
python setup.py install

Added to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'tokenauth',
    ...
]

Added to urls.py.

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^<your-login-url>/', include('tokenauth.urls')),
    ...

]

Definition in settings.py

TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME = 60 * 60 * 24 * 3 # Default 3 days
TOKEN_PREFIX = "Bearer"
TOKEN_REFRESH = True

Definition in settings.py

# Rest Framework
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    ...
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
        'tokenauth.auth.TokenAuthentication',
    ),
    ...
}

Or in views.py

from tokenauth.auth import TokenAuthentication
class SimpleView(ModelViewset):
    authentication_classes = (TokenAuthentication, )

Created token and login:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username": "<username>", "password":"<password>"}' <your-django-url>/<your-login-url>/tokens/

Refresh token:

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key": "<your-valid-token>"}' <your-django-url>/<your-login-url>/tokens/

Deleted token and logout:

curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: <your-token>" <your-django-url>/<your-login-url>/tokens/