Djangorestframework-simplejwt: How to get user object via access_token?

[xianfuxing]

Can I get the user object via access token?

[MarkYHZhang]

I have the same question.

[davesque]

It depends on what you have access to in the current scope. If you're in the code of an authenticated view, your user has already been determined by django and the jwt plugin. You'd do something like this:

def my_view(request):
    request.user

If all you have is the base64 encoded access token string, you can decode it using the AccessToken class:

from restframework_simplejwt.tokens import AccessToken

token_str = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VyX3BrIjoxLCJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiY29sZF9zdHVmZiI6IuKYgyIsImV4cCI6MTIzNDU2LCJqdGkiOiJmZDJmOWQ1ZTFhN2M0MmU4OTQ5MzVlMzYyYmNhOGJjYSJ9.NHlztMGER7UADHZJlxNG0WSi22a2KaYSfd1S-AuT7lU'
access_token = AccessToken(token_str)
user = User.objects.get(access_token['user_id'])

[xianfuxing]

user = User.objects.get(id=access_token['user_id']) , works fine.
@davesque Thank you.

[davesque]

@xianfuxing How come the authentication framework isn't giving you a user object on the request?