Migration Guide

Migrating to 1.0

The stable release has introduced a number of backward incompatible changes and purpose of this guide is to allow developer to quickly adapt a given project.

Removal of UserEmailFactoryBase and its subclasses

As mentioned in Emails page since 1.0 email support has been removed from Djoser and it is advised to use django-templated-mail for use cases which were previously handled by djoser email support. You can find out more about it in the project documentation. Keep in mind that DOMAIN and SITE_NAME settings have also been moved to django-templated-mail as described in settings page.

Base URLs are no longer included with other URLs

Previously djoser.urls.base were bundled with djoser.urls.authtoken, however in some cases developer might not need them and therefore if base URLs are needed it is now necessary to explicitly include them, e.g.:

urlpatterns = [
    (...),
    url(r'^auth/', include('djoser.urls')),
    url(r'^auth/', include('djoser.urls.authtoken')),
]

Dropped support for Django < 1.10

Support for Django 1.8 and 1.9 has been dropped in Django REST Framework 3.7 and hence there was no reason to keep it in djoser. It is recommended to upgrade to Django 1.11, since 1.10 will EOL in December 2017. Django Deprecation Timeline and Django Release Notes are very helpful in the process.

Some View class names and URLs has been updated

Also please note that for sake of consistency all URLs now end with a trailing slash.

View class names:

  • RegistrationView has been renamed to UserCreateView
  • LoginView has been renamed to TokenCreateView
  • LogoutView has been renamed to TokenDestroyView

Base URLs:

  • register/ has been renamed to users/create/
  • register URL name has been renamed to user-create
  • activate/ has been renamed to users/activate/
  • activate URL name has been renamed to user-activate

Token Based Authentication URLs:

  • login/ has been renamed to token/create/
  • login URL name has been renamed to token-create
  • logout/ has been renamed to token/destroy/
  • logout URL name has been renamed to token-destroy