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Django rest auth user_logged_in signal

I have a django rest app using django rest auth. I'm trying to log something everytime a user log in using signals.

I've searched on the web on how to use signals and I haven't found any interesting material on how to make it work. I think the problem may be with allauth signals. Is there any problem with the following configuration?

signals.py

import logging

from allauth.account.signals import user_logged_in
from django.dispatch import receiver

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@receiver(user_logged_in)
def login_logger(request, user, **kwargs):
    logger.info("{} logged in with {}".format(user.email, request))

apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class UsersConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'users'

    def ready(self):
        import users.signals

__init__.py

default_app_config = 'users.apps.UsersConfig'
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Here's how I solved it using djangorestframework-jwt==1.11.0:

settings.py

from django.contrib.auth.signals import user_logged_in

def jwt_response_payload_handler(token, user=None, request=None):
    if user and request:
        user_logged_in.send(sender=user.__class__, request=request, user=user)
    return {
        'token': token,
    }

JWT_AUTH = {
    'JWT_RESPONSE_PAYLOAD_HANDLER': jwt_response_payload_handler,
}

models.py

from django.contrib.auth.signals import user_logged_in

def login_handler(sender, user, request, **kwargs):
    print('logged in')

user_logged_in.connect(login_handler)
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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It seems that Django Rest Framework doesn't emit user_logged_in signal when token-based authentication is configured: https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/3869

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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For some strange reason, this doesn't seem to work when placed in signals.py, this implementation of signals.py works fine for every part of project except for allauth(I had my personal experience too). Check this github issueshttps://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/issues/347

For some strange reason moving this code(signals.py) into models.py of the same app will work.

# place this in models.py
from allauth.account.signals import user_logged_in
from django.dispatch import receiver

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@receiver(user_logged_in)
def login_logger(request, user, **kwargs):
    logger.info("{} logged in with {}".format(user.email, request))
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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