enabled OPTIONS and meta data of AuthToken

[betaver]

Utilize GenericAPIView instead of APIView to enabled OPTIONS and meta data of token based auth.

Now, when OPTIONS an 'obtain auth token' endpoint, it returns full information like this

{
"name":"Obtain Auth Token",
...
"actions":{
    "POST":
    {
        "username":{"type":"string","required":true,"read_only":false,"label":"Username"},
        "password":{"type":"string","required":true,"read_only":false,"label":"Password"}}}}

}

which is much more friendly to consumer, Swagger, and Browerable API than before.

[tomchristie]

Okay, alternative take may be for us to consider ensuring the meta implementation doesn't need a full GenericAPIView, but can also get the additional info so long as there's at least a .serializer_class attribute, if the get_serializer method does not exist.

[maurodoglio]

Happy to take this 😺

[betaver]

Thanks!

March 22 2015 8:25 PM, "Mauro Doglio" wrote:

 
Happy to take this 

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[maurodoglio]

This can probably be closed once #2743 gets merged

[tomchristie]

👍