Authentication and Permissions in Django

 Authentication and Permissions in Django

DRF includes built-in support for authentication and permissions. We can specify authentication classes and permission classes for our views.

Here's an example view that requires authentication:

python

from rest_framework import generics, permissions

from .models import Book

from .serializers import BookSerializer

class BookList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):

    queryset = Book.objects.all()

    serializer_class = BookSerializer

    authentication_classes = [authentication.TokenAuthentication]

    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]

In this example, we specify the TokenAuthentication class as the authentication class and the IsAuthenticated class as the permission class. This requires clients to