How to get username from Django Rest Framework JWT token

For me with Django (2.0.1), djangorestframework (3.7.7), djangorestframework-jwt (1.11.0).

I had to do following to get my use back user from token:

        token = request.META.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION', " ").split(' ')[1]        print(token)        data = {'token': token}        try:            valid_data = VerifyJSONWebTokenSerializer().validate(data)            user = valid_data['user']            request.user = user        except ValidationError as v:            print("validation error", v)

Or you can write a middleware that would set user based on their token.

For me, this worked as RestFrameworkJWT is no longer maintained.So I used the rest_framework_simplejwt package.

from rest_framework_simplejwt.backends import TokenBackendtoken = request.META.get('HTTP_AUTHORIZATION', " ").split(' ')[1]data = {'token': token}   try:      valid_data = TokenBackend(algorithm='HS256').decode(token,verify=False)      user = valid_data['user']      request.user = user   except ValidationError as v:      print("validation error", v)

Basically you could do this

username = request.user.username