Get user object from token string in DRF?

Question

I have a token string from Django REST Framework\'s TokenAuthentication.

I need to get the corresponding user object. How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

If you invoke the user object directly from the Token class, as presented in @aliva's solution, you will get a raw partial Django User with just the fields living in the database. If you need to get the real user object, with e.g. its computed properties, you can do this:

from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token

user_id = Token.objects.get(key=request.auth.key).user_id
user = User.objects.get(id=user_id)