How to use custom Django Authentication with it's rest TokenAuthentication

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So I am using a third party Authentication (Firebase Auth)(Facebook && Google) with my Django Application.

I did set up some rest endpoints that need authentication to post some content.

I will very well like to use the Django Rest Framework Token Authentication. However, this requires that I have to pass a username & password in other to get the token.

Since I am using Firebase(Facebook and Google), users are not asked to set any password. Here is my CustomUser model.

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
    uid = models.CharField(max_length=191, null=False)
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=20, default="", blank=True)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=20, default="", blank=True)
    address = models.CharField(max_length=150, default="", blank=True)

Is there any workaround or ideas on this?

Mohd · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-02 02:04:17Z

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It is hard to tell without a hint about your user model, but Django Rest Framework Token doesn't require a password. You can create a token by providing user only (which doesn't have to be django's auth user model).

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token

Token.objects.create(user=user)

To use Django's user model without a password, you can use user.set_unusable_password() right after creating the user object.

answered May 2, 2020 at 2:04

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LearnToday Over a year ago

Thank you. I added some code for the CustomUser, please do take a look.

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