I'm creating a Django back-end with token authentication. I am currently running into this issue when registering a user using postman. Despite the response I receive the user-account and token still gets created successfully.
Response:
DoesNotExist at /api/accounts/register
Token matching query does not exist.
API registration View
@api_view(['POST'])
def registration_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
serializer = AccountRegistrationSerializer(data=request.data)
data = {}
if serializer.is_valid():
account = serializer.save()
data['response'] = "successfully registered a new user."
token = Token.objects.get(user=account).key
data['token'] = token
else:
data = serializer.errors
return Response(data)
Accounts.models
@receiver(post_save, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
def create_auth_token(sender, instance=None, created=False, **kwargs):
if created:
Token.objects.create(user=instance)
Traceback:
Traceback:
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py" in inner
34. response = get_response(request)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _get_response
115. response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _get_response
113. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\views\decorators\csrf.py" in wrapped_view
54. return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in view
71. return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py" in dispatch
505. response = self.handle_exception(exc)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py" in handle_exception
465. self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py" in raise_uncaught_exception
476. raise exc
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\views.py" in dispatch
502. response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\rest_framework\decorators.py" in handler
50. return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\dev\Harryandsam\harryandsam\accounts\api\views.py" in registration_view
19. token = Token.objects.get(user=account).key
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\manager.py" in manager_method
82. return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\liamr\.virtualenvs\Harryandsam-e8SFW3Fu\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\query.py" in get
408. self.model._meta.object_name