How to use Graphene GraphQL framework with Django REST Framework authentication
For example, if you are using authentication_classes = (TokenAuthentication,)
in your API views, you could add an endpoint to a GraphQLView decorated in this way:
urls.py:
# ...
from rest_framework.authentication import TokenAuthentication
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework.decorators import authentication_classes, permission_classes, api_view
def graphql_token_view():
view = GraphQLView.as_view(schema=schema)
view = permission_classes((IsAuthenticated,))(view)
view = authentication_classes((TokenAuthentication,))(view)
view = api_view(['GET', 'POST'])(view)
return view
urlpatterns = [
# ...
url(r'^graphql_token', graphql_token_view()),
url(r'^graphql', csrf_exempt(GraphQLView.as_view(schema=schema))),
url(r'^graphiql', include('django_graphiql.urls')),
# ...
Note that we added a new ^graphql_token
endpoint and kept the original ^graphql
which is used by the GraphiQL tool.
Then, you should set the Authorization
header in your GraphQL client and point to the graphql_token
endpoint.
UPDATE: See this GitHub issue where people have suggested alternative solutions and full working examples.
Adding some additional steps that I had to take when following this integration:
class RTGraphQLView(GraphQLView):
def parse_body(self, request):
if type(request) is rest_framework.request.Request:
return request.data
return super().parse_body(request)
Graphene was expecting the .body
attr but DRF reads it and attaches it to .data
before being passed to GraphQLView.