Use url with uid and token generated by dj-rest-auth for actual password reset routine from django allauth

urls.py

urlpatterns = [

      # this path is used to generate email content for password reset request
      # from dj-rest-auth API; format is same as used by default django auth so
      # the generated URL must be translated to be used with allauth
      path('accounts/password/reset/key/api/<uidb64>/<token>/',
          user.ApiPasswordResetView.as_view(),
          name='password_reset_confirm'),
]

user_view.py

from allauth.account.forms import \
    default_token_generator as allauth_token_generator
from django.contrib.auth.tokens import default_token_generator
from django.utils.encoding import force_str
from django.utils.http import int_to_base36, urlsafe_base64_decode
from django.contrib.auth.models import User


class ApiPasswordResetView(View):
    """ Wrapper to change the uid encoding and token
    used by dj_rest_auth to the method used by allauth
    """

    def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
        uidb36 = None
        token = kwargs.get('token')
        try:
            uid = force_str(urlsafe_base64_decode(kwargs.get('uidb64')))
            user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
            uidb36 = int_to_base36(int(uid))
            # validate default token
            if default_token_generator.check_token(user, token):
                # generate allauth token
                token = allauth_token_generator.make_token(user)
            else:
                token = None
        except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, User.DoesNotExist):
            return Http404()
        # redirect to Allauth password reset link
        return HttpResponseRedirect(
            reverse_lazy('account_reset_password_from_key', args=[uidb36, token])
        )

Just one step back: these two snippets are specifically meant to convert between the password reset request from package dj-rest-auth to the routine from django-allauth.

From your question I get the impression that you want to implement something else, am I correct?

For a more generic authentication system you really should look into - for instance - Django Allauth which provides authentication services in a very flexible way.

thank you so much for your response...

well what I was doing was having endpoints for a blog that a frontend will connect to so using dj-rest-auth
I had routes like
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/register
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/login # this was generated by dj-rest-auth for me
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/logout # this was generated by dj-rest-auth for me
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/register/verify-email/
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/register/verify-email/str:key/
localhost:8000/api/v1/users/password/reset/confirm/// # so this was the link that did not work till I used your snippets

and then had this in my route but on clicking the mail link it generates a template that was what I was referring to.

I am newbie so I guess my interpretation is not good forgive my naiveness
path('api/v1/users/password/reset/key/api///', views.ApiPasswordResetView.as_view(), name='password_reset_confirm'),