[Django]-How to get current user id Django

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You can get the token, userid and username by following these steps:

Inside your app, create a utils.py file (at the same level where serializers.py is placed).

Content of utils.py:

from .serializers import UserSerializer #you have already created UserSerializer

def jwt_response_payload_handler(token, user=None, request=None):
    user = UserSerializer(user, context={'request': request}).data
    return {
        'token': token,
        'userid': user['id'],
        'username':user['username']
    }

In your settings.py, add 

JWT_AUTH = {
    'JWT_RESPONSE_PAYLOAD_HANDLER':
    'app_name.utils.jwt_response_payload_handler', #app_name is name of the app which contains utils.py
}

Now when you hit the api (api-token-auth/) to get the token, it will respond with token, userid and username.

Example of response:

{
     'token':'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6ImdhbmVzaG5lZ2lAZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZXhwIjoxNTI0NTAyNzIzLCJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxLCJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImdhbmVzaG5lZ2kifQ.RxnYF1gwaYywSnnWC-ngrcZaw90lpD6Rq7jcbnEoZVk',
     'userid':1,
     'username':'ganeshnegi'
}
👤Ganesh Negi

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According to the django-rest-framework-jwt docs this view only returns the username and password (emphasis mine).

In your urls.py add [url(r'^api-token-auth/', obtain_jwt_token)] to enable obtaining a token via a POST included the user’s username and password.

I wouldn’t worry about not obtaining the id, you should be able to query the User table by username.

👤wpercy

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