Adding claims to DRF simple JWT payload

Question

Using djangorestframework_simplejwt library, when POST to a custom view

#urls.py
path(\'api/token/\', MyTokenObtainPairView.as_view(), name=\'token_obtain\'),

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Answer 1

As you already created a subclass for the desired view (MyTokenObtainPairView) and a subclass for its corresponding serializer (MyTokenObtainPairSerializer), add the following to the serializer

class MyTokenObtainPairSerializer(TokenObtainPairSerializer):

    ...

    @classmethod
    def get_token(cls, user):
        token = super().get_token(user)

        # Add custom claims
        token['iat'] = datetime.datetime.now()
        token['user'] = user.username
        token['date'] = str(datetime.date.today())

        return token

Then, when you POST to that same location, you'll get an access token like this

eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNTkwOTE0MTk4LCJqdGkiOiJhZDZmNzZhZjFmOGU0ZWJlOGI2Y2Y5YjQ4MGQzZjY2MiIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjExLCJpYXQiOjE1OTA5MTc0OTgsInVzZXIiOiJ0aWFnbyIsImRhdGUiOiIyMDIwLTA1LTMxIn0.-5U9P-WWmhlOenzCvc6b7_71Tz17LyNxe_DOMwwqH4RqrNsilVukEcZWFRGupLHRZjIvPya2QJGpiju9ujzQuw

Using JWT you can see the Payload changing accordingly

{
  "token_type": "access",
  "exp": 1590914198,
  "jti": "ad6f76af1f8e4ebe8b6cf9b480d3f662",
  "user_id": 11,
  "iat": 1590917498,
  "user": "tiago",
  "date": "2020-05-31"
}