How to use password validators with Django REST framework

Without any doubts, password management mechanisms are something that should not be reinvented each and every time. Especially, when it comes to Django, which comes in a “battery included” mode when we talk about authentication. Password validation is one of architecture patterns that allows to mitigate an issue of poor passwords - a common security problem. By default, Django comes with 4 password validators enabled and when you use built-in forms for user signup or password update, they are fired without any additional configuration. However, when it comes to Django REST framework, it is a duty of developers to enable password validators in custom code.

In this video we observe how to use built-in Django password validators with Django REST framework.

00:00 - Start
00:50 - Password management in Django
02:22 - How password validation works with Django forms
03:18 - Password validation is not enabled in Django REST framework by default (the problem)
03:59 - The implementation
05:08 - Refactor the SignupSerializer to use password validators
08:08 - Write tests
09:17 - Test the implementation with an HTTP client
10:20 - Fixing the bug

Source code for this tutorial: https://git.yurimednikov.xyz/yuri/dja...

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