How Can I Disable Authentication in Django REST Framework

Question

I'm working on a store site, where every user is going to be anonymous (well, until it's time to pay at least), and I'm trying to use Django REST Framework to serve the product API, but it keeps complaining about:

"detail": "Authentication credentials were not provided." 

I found some settings related to authentication, but I couldn't find anything like ENABLE_AUTHENTICATION = True. How do I simply disable authentication, and let any visitor to the site access the API?

Answer 1

You can give empty defaults for the permission and authentication classes in your settings.

REST_FRAMEWORK = {     # other settings...      'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [],     'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [], } 

Answer 2

You can also disable authentication for particular class or method, just keep blank the decorators for the particular method.

from rest_framework.decorators import authentication_classes, permission_classes  @api_view(['POST'])     @authentication_classes([]) @permission_classes([]) def items(request):    return Response({"message":"Hello world!"})