I am trying to authenticate a user using django rest framework and authenticate import below but for some reason i keep getting null as a result when i check the front end with reactJS, i am referring to the variable logged_in_used below:
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
...
if request.method == "POST":
username = request.data.get('username')
password = request.data.get('password')
get_user = User.objects.get(username=username)
logged_in_used = authenticate(username=get_user.username, password=get_user.check_password(password))
...
# data with token dictionnary
...
result = (data_with_token, logged_in_used, status.HTTP_200_OK)
Is there something that i am doing wrong here?
try it like this
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login
...
if request.method == "POST":
username = request.POST['username']
password = request.POST['password']
logged_user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
if logged_user is not None:
login(request, logged_user)
from here you can redirect or whatever else :)