What is request.successful_authenticator?

Question

Django

What is request.successful_authenticator? What is this value for and what should it be equal to?

Answer 1

The Django rest framework can identify a user in a variety of ways, such as cookies or basic authentication. Most often by token.
Authentication methods are specified in the REST_FRAMEWORK['DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES'] setting.
If one of the methods was able to determine the user, then the user sets request.user, and the authentication class itself is written to request.successful_authenticator, so that you can determine which method worked.