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Djoser user activation email POST example


I am using the Django rest framework and Djoser for Authentication and User Registration.

When a new user registers, Djoser sends an activation email with a link that does a GET request. In order to activate, I need to extract the uid and token from the activation URL and make a POST request for Djoser to be able to activate the user.

My environment is Python 3 and Django 1.11, Djoser 1.0.1.

What I would like to do is to handle the get request in Django, extract the uid and token, and then make a POST request. I have extracted the uid and token and would like to make a POST (within this GET request). I do not know how to make this POST request in the background.

My URL is like this:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/activate/MQ/4qu-584cc6772dd62a3757ee

When I click on this in an email it does a GET request.

I handle this in a Django view.

The view needs to make a POST request like this:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/activate/

data= [(‘uid’=‘MQ’), (‘token’=‘4qu-584cc6772dd62a3757ee’),]

My view to handle GET is:

from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response
import os.path, urllib


class UserActivationView(APIView):
    
    def get (self, request):
        urlpathrelative=request.get_full_path()
        ABSOLUTE_ROOT= request.build_absolute_uri('/')[:-1].strip("/")

        spliturl=os.path.split(urlpathrelative)
        relpath=os.path.split(spliturl[0])
        uid=spliturl[0]
        uid=os.path.split(uid)[1]
        
        token=spliturl[1]
        postpath=ABSOLUTE_ROOT+relpath[0]+'/'
        post_data = [('uid', uid), ('token', token),]     
        result = urllib.request.urlopen(postpath, urllib.parse.urlencode(post_data).encode("utf-8"))
        content = result.read()
        return Response(content)

Solution

  • views.py

    from rest_framework.views import APIView
    from rest_framework.response import Response
    import requests
    
    class UserActivationView(APIView):
        def get (self, request, uid, token):
            protocol = 'https://' if request.is_secure() else 'http://'
            web_url = protocol + request.get_host()
            post_url = web_url + "/auth/users/activate/"
            post_data = {'uid': uid, 'token': token}
            result = requests.post(post_url, data = post_data)
            content = result.text
            return Response(content)
    

    urls.py

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
        url(r'^auth/users/activate/(?P<uid>[\w-]+)/(?P<token>[\w-]+)/$', UserActivationView.as_view()),
    ]