That's genius, David. Thank you! On Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 5:56:07 PM UTC-4 David Nugent wrote:
> Why not just edit the migration file directly and substitute 'my_custom..' > for settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL? > > There should be no problem in doing that. > > Regards, David > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 3:02 AM bnmng <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Django "strongly recommends" you create custom user, and in your apps you >> can refer to the custom user with "settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL" or with >> get_user_model(). >> >> Here's the problem. If you develop an app which refers to the custom >> user, the migrations won't be portable because even if you use the >> above references, the migration will use the app name and model name of the >> custom user. >> >> Here's what a migration might look like: >> >> dependencies = [ >> ('my_custom_auth_app', '0001_initial'), >> ] >> >> operations = [ >> migrations.AddField( >> model_name='mymodel', >> name='created_by', >> field=models.ForeignKey( >> on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, >> to='my_custom_auth_app.my_custom_user', >> ), >> ), >> ] >> >> Even though I never put "my_custom_auth_app" or "my_custom_user" in the >> app, it translated settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL to the app name and model for >> the migration. >> >> Is there any way to get around this and make your app with its migrations >> portable? >> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8cad467d-5fcc-4d22-9915-64290a1bc9a7n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8cad467d-5fcc-4d22-9915-64290a1bc9a7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/812f80f3-f860-4d51-a4b0-9c5b2d5c8408n%40googlegroups.com.
