djangorestframework-jwt 1.0.1

# Django REST framework JWT Auth

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## Overview
This package provides [JSON Web Token Authentication](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token) support for [Django REST framework](http://django-rest-framework.org/).

If you want to read more about JWT, here's a great blog post by the guys at Auth0 that talks about [Cookie vs Token based authentication](http://blog.auth0.com/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-with-cookies-vs-token/).

## Installation

Install using `pip`...

```
$ pip install djangorestframework-jwt
```

## Usage

In your `settings.py`, add `JSONWebTokenAuthentication` to Django REST framework's `DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES`.

```python
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated',
),
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication',
'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication',
'rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication',
),
}
```

In your `urls.py` add the following URL route to enable obtaining a token via a POST included the user's username and password.

```python
urlpatterns = patterns(
'',
# ...

url(r'^api-token-auth/', 'rest_framework_jwt.views.obtain_jwt_token'),
)
```

You can easily test if the endpoint is working by doing the following in your terminal, if you had a user created with the username **admin** and password **abc123**.

```bash
$ curl -X POST -d "username=admin&password=abc123" http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/
```

Alternatively, you can use all the content types supported by the Django REST framework to obtain the auth token. For example:

```bash
$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username":"admin","password":"abc123"}' http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/
```

Now in order to access protected api urls you must include the `Authorization: JWT <your_token>` header.

```bash
$ curl -H "Authorization: JWT <your_token>" http://localhost:8000/protected-url/
```

## Refresh Token
If `JWT_ALLOW_REFRESH` is True, issued tokens can be "refreshed" to obtain a new brand token with renewed expiration time. Add a URL pattern like this:
```python
url(r'^api-token-refresh/', 'rest_framework_jwt.views.refresh_jwt_token'),
```

Pass in an existing token to the refresh endpoint as follows: `{"token": EXISTING_TOKEN}`. Note that only non-expired tokens will work. The JSON response looks the same as the normal obtain token endpoint `{"token": NEW_TOKEN}`.

```bash
$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"token":"<EXISTING_TOKEN>}' http://localhost:8000/api-token-refresh/
```

Refresh with tokens can be repeated (token1 -> token2 -> token3), but this chain of token stores the time that the original token (obtained with username/password credentials), as `orig_iat`. You can only keep refreshing tokens up to `JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_DELTA`.

A typical use case might be a web app where you'd like to keep the user "logged in" the site without having to re-enter their password, or get kicked out by surprise before their token expired. Imagine they had a 1-hour token and are just at the last minute while they're still doing something. With mobile you could perhaps store the username/password to get a new token, but this is not a great idea in a browser. Each time the user loads the page, you can check if there is an existing non-expired token and if it's close to being expired, refresh it to extend their session. In other words, if a user is actively using your site, they can keep their "session" alive.

## Additional Settings
There are some additional settings that you can override similar to how you'd do it with Django REST framework itself. Here are all the available defaults.

```python
JWT_AUTH = {
'JWT_ENCODE_HANDLER':
'rest_framework_jwt.utils.jwt_encode_handler',

'JWT_DECODE_HANDLER':
'rest_framework_jwt.utils.jwt_decode_handler',

'JWT_PAYLOAD_HANDLER':
'rest_framework_jwt.utils.jwt_payload_handler',

'JWT_PAYLOAD_GET_USER_ID_HANDLER':
'rest_framework_jwt.utils.jwt_get_user_id_from_payload_handler',

'JWT_SECRET_KEY': settings.SECRET_KEY,
'JWT_ALGORITHM': 'HS256',
'JWT_VERIFY': True,
'JWT_VERIFY_EXPIRATION': True,
'JWT_LEEWAY': 0,
'JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA': datetime.timedelta(seconds=300),

'JWT_ALLOW_REFRESH': False,
'JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_DELTA': datetime.timedelta(days=7),

'JWT_AUTH_HEADER_PREFIX': 'JWT',
}
```
This packages uses the JSON Web Token Python implementation, [PyJWT](https://github.com/progrium/pyjwt) and allows to modify some of it's available options.

### JWT_SECRET_KEY
This is the secret key used to encrypt the JWT. Make sure this is safe and not shared or public.

Default is your project's `settings.SECRET_KEY`.

### JWT_ALGORITHM

Possible values:

> * HS256 - HMAC using SHA-256 hash algorithm (default)
> * HS384 - HMAC using SHA-384 hash algorithm
> * HS512 - HMAC using SHA-512 hash algorithm
> * RS256 - RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 signature algorithm using SHA-256 hash algorithm
> * RS384 - RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 signature algorithm using SHA-384 hash algorithm
> * RS512 - RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 signature algorithm using SHA-512 hash algorithm

Note:
> For the RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 algorithms, the "secret" argument in jwt.encode is supposed to be a private RSA key as
> imported with Crypto.PublicKey.RSA.importKey. Likewise, the "secret" argument in jwt.decode is supposed to be the
> public RSA key imported with the same method.

Default is `"HS256"`.

### JWT_VERIFY

If the secret is wrong, it will raise a jwt.DecodeError telling you as such. You can still get at the payload by setting the `JWT_VERIFY` to `False`.

Default is `True`.

### JWT_VERIFY_EXPIRATION

You can turn off expiration time verification with by setting `JWT_VERIFY_EXPIRATION` to `False`.

Default is `True`.

### JWT_LEEWAY

> This allows you to validate an expiration time which is in the past but no very far. For example, if you have a JWT payload with an expiration time set to 30 seconds after creation but you know that sometimes you will process it after 30 seconds, you can set a leeway of 10 seconds in order to have some margin.

Default is `0` seconds.

### JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA
This is an instance of Python's `datetime.timedelta`. This will be added to `datetime.utcnow()` to set the expiration time.

Default is `datetime.timedelta(seconds=300)`(5 minutes).

### JWT_ALLOW_REFRESH
Enable token refresh functionality. Token issued from `rest_framework_jwt.views.obtain_jwt_token` will have an `orig_iat` field. Default is `False`

### JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRATION_DELTA
Limit on token refresh, is a `datetime.timedelta` instance. This is how much time after the original token that future tokens can be refreshed from.

Default is `datetime.timedelta(days=7)` (7 days).

### JWT_PAYLOAD_HANDLER
Specify a custom function to generate the token payload

### JWT_PAYLOAD_GET_USER_ID_HANDLER
If you store `user_id` differently than the default payload handler does, implement this function to fetch `user_id` from the payload.

### JWT_AUTH_HEADER_PREFIX
You can modify the Authorization header value prefix that is required to be sent together with the token. The default value is `JWT`. This decision was introduced in PR [#4](https://github.com/GetBlimp/django-rest-framework-jwt/pull/4) to allow using both this package and OAuth2 in DRF.

Another common value used for tokens and Authorization headers is `Bearer`.

Default is `JWT`.