Installation

Requirements

Knox depends on cryptography to provide bindings to OpenSSL for token generation This requires the OpenSSL build libraries to be available.

Windows

Cryptography is a statically linked build, no extra steps are needed

Linux

cryptography should build very easily on Linux provided you have a C compiler, headers for Python (if you’re not using pypy), and headers for the OpenSSL and libffi libraries available on your system.

Debian and Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev python-dev

Fedora and RHEL-derivatives:

sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel

For other systems or problems, see the cryptography installation docs

Installing Knox

Knox should be installed with pip

pip install django-rest-knox

Setup knox

• Add rest_framework and knox to your INSTALLED_APPS, remove rest_framework.authtoken if you were using it.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  ...
  'rest_framework',
  'knox',
  ...
)

• Make knox's TokenAuthentication your default authentification class for django-rest-framework:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ('knox.auth.TokenAuthentication',),
    ...
}

• Add the knox url patterns to your project.

• If you set TokenAuthentication as the only default authentication class on the second step, override knox's LoginView to accept another authentication method and use it instead of knox's default login view.

• Apply the migrations for the models

python manage.py migrate