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Requirements

  • Python >= 3.6
  • Django >= 2.1
  • Django-Ninja >= 0.16.1
  • Django-Ninja-Extra >= 0.11.0

These are the officially supported python and package versions. Other versions will probably work. You 're free to modify the tox config and see what is possible.

Installation

Ninja JWT can be installed with pip:

pip install django-ninja-jwt

Also, you need to register NinjaJWTDefaultController controller to your Django-Ninja api. The NinjaJWTDefaultController comes with three routes obtain_token, refresh_token and verify_token

from ninja_jwt.controller import NinjaJWTDefaultController
from ninja_extra import NinjaExtraAPI

api = NinjaExtraAPI()
api.register_controllers(NinjaJWTDefaultController)

The NinjaJWTDefaultController comes with three routes obtain_token, refresh_token and verify_token. It is a combination of two subclass TokenVerificationController and TokenObtainPairController. If you wish to customize these routes, you can inherit from these controllers and change its implementation

from ninja_extra import api_controller
from ninja_jwt.controller import TokenObtainPairController

@api_controller('token', tags=['Auth'])
class MyCustomController(TokenObtainPairController):
    """obtain_token and refresh_token only"
...
api.register_controllers(MyCustomController)

If you wish to use localizations/translations, simply add ninja_jwt to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'ninja_jwt',
    ...
]

Using Ninja Router

If you prefer not to follow the NinjaExtra methodology, refer to this documentation on how to use Ninja-JWT with Django-Ninja Router.

Usage

To verify that Ninja JWT is working, you can use curl to issue a couple of test requests:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"username": "davidattenborough", "password": "boatymcboatface"}' \
  http://localhost:8000/api/token/pair

...
{
  "access":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiY29sZF9zdHVmZiI6IuKYgyIsImV4cCI6MTIzNDU2LCJqdGkiOiJmZDJmOWQ1ZTFhN2M0MmU4OTQ5MzVlMzYyYmNhOGJjYSJ9.NHlztMGER7UADHZJlxNG0WSi22a2KaYSfd1S-AuT7lU",
  "refresh":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImNvbGRfc3R1ZmYiOiLimIMiLCJleHAiOjIzNDU2NywianRpIjoiZGUxMmY0ZTY3MDY4NDI3ODg5ZjE1YWMyNzcwZGEwNTEifQ.aEoAYkSJjoWH1boshQAaTkf8G3yn0kapko6HFRt7Rh4"
}

You can use the returned access token to prove authentication for a protected view:

curl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiY29sZF9zdHVmZiI6IuKYgyIsImV4cCI6MTIzNDU2LCJqdGkiOiJmZDJmOWQ1ZTFhN2M0MmU4OTQ5MzVlMzYyYmNhOGJjYSJ9.NHlztMGER7UADHZJlxNG0WSi22a2KaYSfd1S-AuT7lU" \
  http://localhost:8000/api/some-protected-view/

When this short-lived access token expires, you can use the longer-lived refresh token to obtain another access token:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"refresh":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImNvbGRfc3R1ZmYiOiLimIMiLCJleHAiOjIzNDU2NywianRpIjoiZGUxMmY0ZTY3MDY4NDI3ODg5ZjE1YWMyNzcwZGEwNTEifQ.aEoAYkSJjoWH1boshQAaTkf8G3yn0kapko6HFRt7Rh4"}' \
  http://localhost:8000/api/token/refresh/

...
{"access":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZX...", "refresh":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVm..."}

Cryptographic Dependencies (Optional)

If you are planning on encoding or decoding tokens using certain digital signature algorithms (i.e. RSA and ECDSA; visit PyJWT for other algorithms), you will need to install the cryptography_ library. This can be installed explicitly, or as a required extra in the django-ninja-jwt requirement:

pip install django-ninja-jwt[crypto]

The django-ninja-jwt[crypto] format is recommended in requirement files in projects using Ninja JWT, as a separate cryptography requirement line may later be mistaken for an unused requirement and removed. cryptography