creating_tokens_manually.rst

Creating tokens manually

Sometimes, you may wish to manually create a token for a user. This could be done as follows:

from rest_framework_simplejwt.tokens import RefreshToken

def get_tokens_for_user(user):
    refresh = RefreshToken.for_user(user)

    return {
        'refresh': str(refresh),
        'access': str(refresh.access_token),
    }

The above function get_tokens_for_user will return the serialized representations of new refresh and access tokens for the given user. In general, a token for any subclass of rest_framework_simplejwt.tokens.Token can be created in this way.