.. _creating_tokens_manually:

Creating tokens manually

Sometimes, you may wish to manually create a token for a user. This could be done as follows:

.. warning:: The for_user method does not check if the user is active. If you need to verify the user's status, this check needs to be done before creating the tokens.

.. code-block:: python

from rest_framework_simplejwt.tokens import RefreshToken from rest_framework_simplejwt.exceptions import AuthenticationFailed

def get_tokens_for_user(user): if not user.is_active: raise AuthenticationFailed("User is not active")

  refresh = RefreshToken.for_user(user)

  return {
      'refresh': str(refresh),
      'access': str(refresh.access_token),
  }

The above function get_tokens_for_user will return the serialized representations of new refresh and access tokens for the given user. In general, a token for any subclass of rest_framework_simplejwt.tokens.Token can be created in this way.