[Django]-Token Creation with Rest-Framework-Jwt

I found the answer.

I read this doc and realized that I just need to redefine those functions. In my case, I preferred to override jwt_playload_handler

So, I added the function to a file called utils.py and it looks so:

from calendar import timegm
from datetime import datetime

from rest_framework_jwt.compat import get_username_field
from rest_framework_jwt.settings import api_settings


def jwt_payload_handler(user):
    username_field = get_username_field()
    print(user['uuid'])
    payload = {'user_id': user['uuid'], 'email': user['email'], 'username': user['email'],
               'exp': datetime.utcnow() + api_settings.JWT_EXPIRATION_DELTA, username_field: user['email']}

    # Include original issued at time for a brand new token,
    # to allow token refresh
    if api_settings.JWT_ALLOW_REFRESH:
        payload['orig_iat'] = timegm(
            datetime.utcnow().utctimetuple()
        )

    if api_settings.JWT_AUDIENCE is not None:
        payload['aud'] = api_settings.JWT_AUDIENCE

    if api_settings.JWT_ISSUER is not None:
        payload['iss'] = api_settings.JWT_ISSUER

    return payload

and then, in the settings.py

JWT_AUTH = {
    'JWT_PAYLOAD_HANDLER':
        'users.utils.jwt_payload_handler',
}

to say it, that it should take my function.

and in my views:

def create_token(user):
    jwt_payload_handler = api_settings.JWT_PAYLOAD_HANDLER
    jwt_encode_handler = api_settings.JWT_ENCODE_HANDLER

    payload = jwt_payload_handler(user)
    token = jwt_encode_handler(payload)

    return token

that’s it