Error while generating authentication token in Django Rest Framework

Question

I have created an endpoint localhost:8000/getauthtoken to generate the authentication token.

The curl command that i am using to get the authentication token is:

curl --request POST --url localhost:8000/getauthtoken --header 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"username":"admin", "password":"admin123"}'

But i am getting

{"password":["This field is required."],"username":["This field is required."]}

But in the command i am passing both username and password

Hamed Rostami · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-19 16:13:24Z

Use httpie (available on pypi) Then follow this on terminal:

Http post your_ip:your_port/your_authresource/ username='' password=''

Or you can try that in Curl in right way:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api-token-auth/ -d "password=aaaaa&username=user"

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