Django REST Framework Authentication keyword

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I'm trying to rename the Rest_framework TokenAuthentication keyword from "Token" to "Bearer" as suggested in the Documentation I have subclassed the TokenAuthentication class like this:

in module: user/authentication.py

from rest_framework import authentication

class TokenAuthentication(authentication.TokenAuthentication):
    """
    Simple token based authentication.
    Clients should authenticate by passing the token key in the "Authorization"
    HTTP header, prepended with the string "Token ".  For example:
    Authorization: Token 401f7ac837da42b97f613d789819ff93537bee6a
    """

    keyword = 'Bearer'

in module app/settings.py

 REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
         'user.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
     ),
 }

It is still sending me a 401 Unauthorized when im using 'Authorization: Bearer ...token...' but not with 'Authorization: Token ...token...'

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks for the advice, I have also used TokenAuthentication in the authentication_classes in every View — Konstantin Paulus
– Konstantin Paulus, Commented Nov 5, 2019 at 10:08
Odd. This is all I needed to do to change the TokenAuthentication for my entire project. I did not need to add anything to the views. — Ryan H.
– Ryan H., Commented Feb 14, 2021 at 20:23

markspl_ · Accepted Answer · 2024-04-23 21:45:50Z

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from rest_framework import authentication
    
class TokenAuthentication(authentication.TokenAuthentication):
    authentication.TokenAuthentication.keyword = 'Bearer'

edited Apr 23, 2024 at 21:45

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answered Jan 10, 2021 at 20:53

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double-beep · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-29 19:21:36Z

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You are missing one last step. Import your TokenAuthentication class that contains the new keyword in your View class instead of the default TokenAuthentication class.

edited May 29, 2020 at 19:21

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answered May 29, 2020 at 18:40

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