Get DRF token from python-social-auth backend

Question

I am trying to integrate Social Authentication in my DRF backend. I decided to go with python-social-auth. If I serve my social login through Django (and an HTML view), I can see my login in successful. I also figured that I can redirect after successful social authentication as outlined here.

Until now, my frontend (a Nuxt app) was using DRF tokens. Even though:

1. I can create valid tokens for social accounts.
2. My frontend can redirect the users to -> complete authorization with OAuth sites e.g. Google, Twitter -> return back to the frontend.

Is it possible for me to somehow manage to redirect a successfully authenticated user to the frontend with the associated and valid DRF token as a query parameter?

Answer 1

You can, it's not trivial, tho. It's possible because the mechanism to retrieve URLs (success or errors ones) is delegated to strategies setting() method, which in the end invokes get_setting() on final implementations. This method you can override to add your custom logic.

These steps should get you on the road:

1. Define a custom strategy

   from social_django.strategy import DjangoStrategy
   
   
   class CustomStrategy(DjangoStrategy):
       def get_setting(self, name):
           if name == 'LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL':
               token = get_drf_token()
               return f'/?toke={token}'
            else:
                return super().get_setting(name)
   

2. Point your SOCIAL_AUTH_STRATEGY settings to this new strategy (import path syntax)