is_authenticated returns false in DRF, true outside DRF

[Eric Gustavsson]

Hey,

I've setup mozilla-django-oidc, but I'm struggling to get `request.user.is_authenticated` to be true within DRF. I added a router endpoint to the browseable API:

return Response({"authenticated": request.user.is_authenticated()})

As well as a response outside DRF:

return HttpResponse(request.user.is_authenticated())

After authentication. DRF returns false, outside DRF returns true. mozilla-django-oidc even has a class extending DRF BasicAuthentication

https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-django-oidc/blob/master/mozilla_django_oidc/contrib/drf.py

Which I added to the DRF settings:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {

    # ...

    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
        'mozilla_django_oidc.contrib.drf.OIDCAuthentication',
    ]

}

This is all using

Django 1.11.15, but I've tested with 2.2 as well.
djangorestframework==3.10.3

What am I missing to get a user seen as authenticated within DRF?

Thanks,

Eric

[Carl Nobile]

The request.user.is_authenticated() is always true unless the requester is the Annonymous user.

Are you sure you logged in and that you are the requester before looking at that value?

[Eric Gustavsson]

Hi Carl,

Turns out I was missing 'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication' from the DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES.

After adding that it worked within DRF without issues. Such a simple mistake

Thanks for the help nonetheless :)

Eric Gustavsson, RHCSA

He/Him/His

Software Engineer

Red Hat

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