Authentication using username or email about djangorestframework-simplejwt

[whatcould]

For others with this issue: In an existing app with multiple authentication backends (including login by email), I was confused when I passed "email" and "password" fields and DRF-simplejwt returned {"username":["This field is required."]}.

All I had to do was pass the email as the username — don't change the field name to 'email'.

[davesque]

@whatcould Right. The login serializer just uses the username field defined on the user model. I don't think there's any way it could properly account for the behavior of non-standard authentication backends.

[nourani]

+1 from me. However, I don't think this is an issue but rather a feature?

[gabn88]

Authentication is done using the authenticate method of django.contrib.auth. Therefore you can modify its behaviour by modifying the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting in settings.py.

Your question has nothing to do with this package, please close.

[davesque]

What @gabn88 says is correct, actually. Take a look here. Will close this since it seems out of scope for simple jwt.

[Lepiloff]

Based on stackowerflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37332190/django-login-with-email

use this link for update default User model and change username field to email
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37332190/django-login-with-email