When I make a POST request with Postman, I receive an error Forbidden (CSRF cookie not set.)
class BooksView(View):
def post(self, request):
If I use csrf_exempt the error does not occur
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
@method_decorator(csrf_exempt, name='dispatch')
class BooksView(View):
def post(self, request):
However, this error does not occur at all when I use django-rest-framework
from rest_framework.views import APIView
# /books
class BooksView(APIView):
def post(self, request):
What is django-rest-framework and the APIView class doing in relation to csrf?
>Solution :
All views and viewsets in django-rest-framework inherit from APIView, this class wraps itself with csrf_exempt in the as_view method.