TOKEN BASED AUTHENTICATION

Technology stack: Python, django Knowledge required: Postman, curl, python, django, REST API's

This project's purpose is to demonstrate token based authentication using django rest framework.

Steps to run this project:

open the terminal and run the following commands

1. pip install -r requirements.txt

2. python manage.py runserver or py -3 manage.py runserver

3. create admin user using command py -3 manage.py createsuperuser --username 'your username' --email 'your email'

4. login to django admin panel http:127.0.0.1:8000/admin

5. once the user is created. execute the curl command to get the token curl --location --request POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/get/token'
   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'
   --data-raw '{ "username": "", "password": "" }'

6. Use the token to create data using POST API curl --location --request POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/message/'
   --header 'Authorization: Token '
   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'
   --data-raw '{"body":"Hi, Checking the post method"}'

   It posts the data and the data gets stored in the database. It only allows 10 messages per hour for a user. Output: { "id": 22, "message": "Hi, Checking the post method", "created_at": "2022-05-16T17:39:15.387416Z", "updated_at": "2022-05-16T17:39:15.387416Z", "created_by": { "id": 1, "username": "manikanta", "email": "manikanta@mydashllc.com" } }

7. Update the message using the curl call curl --location --request POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/delete/message/<message_id>/'
   --header 'Authorization: Token '
   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'
   --data-raw '{"body":"message of the body"}'

8. Delete the message using the curl call. curl --location --request DELETE 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/delete/message/<message_id>/'
   --header 'Authorization: Token '

9. To get information about the message curl --location --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/get/message/<message_id>/'
   --header 'Authorization: Token '