django-rest-passwordreset 0.9.7

# Django Rest Password Reset

This python package provides a simple password reset strategy for django rest framework, where users can request password
reset tokens via their registered e-mail address.

The main idea behind this package is to not make any assumptions about how the token is delivered to the end-user (e-mail, text-message, etc...).
Instead, this package provides a signal that can be reacted on (e.g., by sending an e-mail or a text message).

This package basically provides two REST endpoints:

* Request a token
* Verify (confirm) a token (and change the password)

## Quickstart

1. Install the package from pypi using pip:
```bash
pip install django-rest-passwordreset
```

2. Add ``django_rest_passwordreset`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS`` (after ``rest_framework``) within your Django settings file:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'django.contrib.auth',
...
'rest_framework',
...
'django_rest_passwordreset',
...
)
```

3. This package provides two endpoints, which can be included by including ``django_rest_passwordreset.urls`` in your ``urls.py`` as follows:
```python
from django.conf.urls import url, include


urlpatterns = [
...
url(r'^api/password_reset/', include('django_rest_passwordreset.urls', namespace='password_reset')),
...
]
```
**Note**: You can adapt the url to your needs.

### Endpoints

The following endpoints are provided:

* `POST ${API_URL}/reset_password` - request a reset password token by using the ``email`` parameter
* `POST ${API_URL}/reset_password/confirm/` - using a valid ``token``, the users password is set to the provided ``password``

where `${API_URL}/` is the url specified in your *urls.py* (e.g., `api/password_reset/`)

### Signals

* ``reset_password_token_created(reset_password_token)`` Fired when a reset password token is generated
* ``pre_password_reset(user)`` - fired just before a password is being reset
* ``post_password_reset(user)`` - fired after a password has been reset

### Example for sending an e-mail

1. Create two new django templates: `email/user_reset_password.html` and `email/user_reset_password.txt`. Those templates will contain the e-mail message sent to the user, aswell as the password reset link (or token).
Within the templates, you can access the following context variables: `current_user`, `username`, `email`, `reset_password_url`. Feel free to adapt this to your needs.

2. Add the following code, which contains a Django Signal, to your application (see [this part of the django documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/signals/#connecting-receiver-functions) for more information on where to put signals).
```python
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django_rest_passwordreset.signals import reset_password_token_created
from django.urls import reverse


@receiver(reset_password_token_created)
def password_reset_token_created(sender, reset_password_token, *args, **kwargs):
"""
Handles password reset tokens
When a token is created, an e-mail needs to be sent to the user
:param sender:
:param reset_password_token:
:param args:
:param kwargs:
:return:
"""
# send an e-mail to the user
context = {
'current_user': reset_password_token.user,
'username': reset_password_token.user.username,
'email': reset_password_token.user.email,
'reset_password_url': "{}?token={}".format(reverse('password_reset:reset-password-request'), reset_password_token.key)
}

# render email text
email_html_message = render_to_string('email/user_reset_password.html', context)
email_plaintext_message = render_to_string('email/user_reset_password.txt', context)

msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(
# title:
_("Password Reset for {title}".format(title="Some website title")),
# message:
email_plaintext_message,
# from:
"noreply@somehost.local",
# to:
[reset_password_token.user.email]
)
msg.attach_alternative(email_html_message, "text/html")
msg.send()

```

3. You should now be able to use the endpoints to request a password reset token via your e-mail address.
If you want to test this locally, I recommend using some kind of fake mailserver (such as maildump).

## Known Issues

### Django 2.1 Migrations - Multiple Primary keys for table ...
Django 2.1 introduced a breaking change for migrations (see [Django Issue #29790](https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29790)). We therefore had to rewrite the migration [0002_pk_migration.py](django_rest_passwordreset/migrations/0002_pk_migration.py) such that it covers Django versions before (`<`) 2.1 and later (`>=`) 2.1.

Some information is written down in Issue #8.

## Contributions

This library tries to follow the unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" (which is providing a basic password reset endpoint for Django Rest Framework). Contributions are welcome in the form of pull requests and issues! If you create a pull request, please make sure that you are not introducing breaking changes.

## Tests

See folder [tests/](tests/). Basically, all endpoints are covered with multiple
unit tests.

Use this code snippet to run tests:
```bash
pip install -r requirements_test.txt
python setup.py install
cd tests
python manage.py test
```