#20657: Have UserChangeForm and UserCreationForm utilize get_user_model()
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Reporter: ChocolateCookies | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.5
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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While I was trying to re-use the creation form for the admin interface
with my custom User model (derived from {{{AbstractUser}}}), I stumbled
upon an issue, namely I couldn't re-use it. I might have thought of a
solution, but it's probably not very elegant.
In {{{contrib.auth.forms}}} the model meta property for
{{{UserChangeForm}}} is User, but in for example AuthenticationForm, the
method {{{get_user_model}}} is utilized. Consequently I cannot use the
form, because this class imports auth.User instead of my own User model.
Is this on purpose, or would it be possible to extend AUTH_USER_MODEL to
the creation and change forms?
I would say it is only possible if a custom User model is derived from
{{{AbstractUser}}}, as opposed to {{{AbstractBaseUser}}}
([https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizing/#specifying-a
-custom-user-model Like the Django docs suggest]). {{{AbstractUser}}}
guarantees the fields that these forms use (username, email), while
{{{AbstractBaseUser}}} doesn't. Although that takes away a lot of the
flexibility of specifying a custom User model, so maybe there's a middle
ground somewhere.
contrib/auth/forms.py:
{{{
class UserChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
...
class Meta:
model = User
...
}}}
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