I'm trying to use AbstractUser to add a field to Django's standard User model. This is my code:
class GUser(AbstractUser):
uuid = UUIDField(auto=True)
This has been successful because from the shell I can say,
>>> a = GUser.objects.all()
>>> a
[<GUser: User1>]
>>> a[0].uuid
UUID('7d1f0b7b52144a2ea20db81ce74741e3')
The problem I am having is registering a new user from the /admin. When I create a new user I get a Database error:
no such table: auth_user
Before I get more into it, here is my forms.py:
class GUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):
class Meta:
model = get_user_model()
class GUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
class Meta:
model = get_user_model()
def clean_username(self):
username = self.cleaned_data["username"]
try:
get_user_model().objects.get(username=username)
except get_user_model().DoesNotExist:
return username
raise forms.ValidationError(self.error_messages['duplicate'])
And my admin.py:
class GUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
form = GUserChangeForm
add_form = GUserCreationForm
fieldsets = (
(None, {'fields': [('username', 'password')]}),
('Personal info', {'fields': ('is_active','is_staff','is_superuser','groups', 'user_permissions')}),
('Important dates', {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')}),
#('Universal ID', {'fields': ('uuid')})
)
admin.site.register(GUser,GUserAdmin)
I read that when this has happened to other people they implemented their own Forms (as I did) to overwrite clean_username(self):
However I don't think this is getting called when I try to add a user from the admin. The auth.forms.py file is getting called even though I register my GUserAdmin.
Also, when I delete my database (sqlite3) and then call python manage.py syncdb, I see that a auth_user table is actually not getting created.
Yes, I have included AUTH_USER_MODEL in settings.py.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have read: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizing/#custom-users-and-the-built-in-auth-forms
Along with tons of SO posts but none of them seem to fix the issue I'm having.
So deleted all the work I had done with this and moved on with the standard user so that I could make progress. Then one day I went back to it and managed to get it working in an hour. I'll post the code for reference but I can't really pin point what made the difference. I do know that the creation forms and stuff were not necessary.
models.py
class PropaUser(AbstractUser):
uuid = UUIDField(auto=True)
admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from login.models import PropaUser
admin.site.register(PropaUser)
settings.py
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "login.PropaUser"
other models.py
class Word(models.Model):
user = models.ManyToManyField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
deck = models.ManyToManyField(Deck)
word = models.CharField(max_length=100)
def __unicode__(self): # Python 3: def __str__(self):
return self.word
This is what is working. I do not know what was causing all the issues before because I think I tried this method before posting this question. This may not be a satisfactory answer but this is what is working. Earlier I was also confused about what it takes simply to add a field to the existing User. This is it.