Login Endpoint
Explore how to implement a user login endpoint in Django RESTful using Simple JWT for authentication. Learn to validate login credentials, handle exceptions, render user data, and refresh access tokens to keep sessions active. This lesson helps you add and test login and refresh endpoints effectively.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
This lesson focuses on implementing the login endpoint.
Our login endpoint
When we build the endpoint, our users should be able to log in. The endpoint calls on the LoginView upon a request and submits the login credentials. The view then calls on the LoginSerializer for serialization and validation of the login credentials. The view also sees to it that, if there are any exceptions, ...