I tried to set up custom user model by inheriting from AbstractBaseUser as
instructed in django documentation, but I am encountering relation
"auth_user" does not exist error.
#models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import (BaseUserManager, AbstractBaseUser)
class MyUserManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, date_of_birth, password=None):
"""Creates and saves the user with the given email, DOB and password"""
if not email:
raise ValueError('Users must have an email address')
user =
self.model(email=self.normalize_email(email),date_of_birth=date_of_birth,)
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_superuser(self, email, date_of_birth, password):
"""Creates and saves a superuser with the given email, date of birth and
password."""
user = self.create_user(email, password=password,
date_of_birth=date_of_birth)
user.is_admin = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser):
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name='email address', max_length=255,
unique=True,)
date_of_birth = models.DateField()
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
objects = MyUserManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['date_of_birth']
def get_full_name(self):
return self.email
def get_short_name(self):
return self.email
def __str__(self):
return self.email
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return True
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
return True
@property
def is_staff(self):
return self.is_admin
#admin.py
from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin as BaseUserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.forms import ReadOnlyPasswordHashField
from user.models import MyUser
class UserCreationForm(forms.ModelForm):
"""A form for creating new users. Includes all the required fields, plus a
repeated password."""
password1 = forms.CharField(label='Password', widget=forms.PasswordInput)
password2 = forms.CharField(label='Password confirmation',
widget=forms.PasswordInput)
class Meta:
model = MyUser
fields = ('email', 'date_of_birth')
def clean_password2(self):
"""Check that the two password entries match"""
password1 = self.cleaned_data.get("password1")
password2 = self.cleaned_data.get("password2")
if password1 and password2 and password1 != password2:
raise forms.ValidationError("Passwords don't match")
return password2
def save(self, commit=True):
#Save the provided password in hashed format
user = super(UserCreationForm, self).save(commit=False)
user.set_password(self.cleaned_data["password1"])
if commit:
user.save()
return user
class UserChangeForm(forms.ModelForm):
"""A form for updating users. Includes all the fields on the user, but
replaces the password field with admin's password hash display field."""
password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField()
class Meta:
model = MyUser
fields = ('email', 'password', 'date_of_birth', 'is_active', 'is_admin')
def clean_password(self):
return self.initial["password"]
# Regardless of what the user provides, return the initial value.
# This is done here, rather than on the field, because the
# field does not have access to the initial value
class UserAdmin(BaseUserAdmin):
# The forms to add and change user instances
form = UserChangeForm
add_form = UserCreationForm
# The fields to be used in displaying the User model.
# These override the definitions on the base UserAdmin
# that reference specific fields on auth.User.
list_display = ('email', 'date_of_birth', 'is_admin')
list_filter = ('is_admin',)
fieldsets = (
(None, {'fields': ('email', 'password')}),
('Personal info', {'fields': ('date_of_birth',)}),
('Permissions', {'fields': ('is_admin',)}),
)
# add_fieldsets is not a standard ModelAdmin attribute. UserAdmin
# overrides get_fieldsets to use this attribute when creating a user.
add_fieldsets = (
(None, {
'classes': ('wide',),
'fields': ('email', 'date_of_birth', 'password1', 'password2')}
),
)
search_fields = ('email',)
ordering = ('email',)
filter_horizontal = ()
# Now register the new UserAdmin...
admin.site.register(MyUser, UserAdmin)
# ... and, since we're not using Django's built-in permissions,
# unregister the Group model from admin.
admin.site.unregister(Group)
#views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.contrib.auth import login, authenticate, logout
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
def logout_view(request):
"""Log the user out """
logout(request)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('home_page:subject_select'))
def register(request):
"""Registers a new user"""
if request.method != 'POST':
#Display blank registration form.
form = UserCreationForm()
else:
#Process completed form.
form = UserCreationForm(data=request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
new_user = form.save()
#Log the user in and then redirect to the home page
authenticated_user = authenticate(email = new_user.email, password =
request.POST['password1'])
login(request, authenticated_user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('home_page:subject_select'))
context = {'form': form}
return render(request, 'user/register.html', context)
#register.html
<!-- User registration page -->
<form method="post" action="{%url 'user:register' %}">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<button name="submit">register</button>
<input type="hidden" name="next" value="{% url 'home_page:subject_select'
%}"/>
</form>
################
I have also configured settings.py as instructed in the documentation.
Please help.
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