Validate and get the user using the jwt token inside a view or consumer

I am using django-rest-framework for the REST API. Also, for JSON web token authentication I am using django-rest-framework-jwt. After a successful login, the user is provided with a token. I have found how to verify a token with the api call, but is there any way to validate the token inside a view and get the user of that token, similar to request.user?

I need it to validate inside the consumer when using django-channels:

def ws_connect(message):
    params = parse_qs(message.content["query_string"])
    if b"token" in params:
        token = params[b"token"][0]

    # validate the token and get the user object

    # create an object with that user

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Validate and get the user using the jwt token inside a view or consumer #368