Building RESTful Python Web Services

Understanding authentication, permissions and throttling

Our current version of the API processes all the incoming requests without requiring any kind of authentication. Django REST Framework allows us to easily use different authentication schemes to identify the user that originated the request or the token that signed the request. Then, we can use these credentials to apply the permission and throttling policies that will determine whether the request must be permitted or not.

Similar to other configurations, we can set the authentication schemes globally and then override them if necessary in a class-based view or a function view. A list of classes specifies the authentication schemes. Django REST framework will use all the specified classes ...