When running `manage.py createsuperuser` I receive the following error
after entering the user's email address:
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./manage.py", line 22, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 371, in
execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 365, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 288, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line
59, in execute
return super().execute(*args, **options)
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 335, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/Users/jkirsop/Development/artemis/venv/lib/python3.6/site-
packages/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py", line
133, in handle
) if field.remote_field else '',
AttributeError: 'ManyToManyRel' object has no attribute 'field_name'
}}}
**Models**
My custom user model is defined as such (relevant pieces only included):
{{{
class OrgUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
email = models.EmailField(
verbose_name='email address',
max_length=255,
unique=True,
)
orgs = models.ManyToManyField(Organisation)
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['orgs']
objects = OrgUserManager()
}}}
and Organisations
{{{
class Organisation(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=60)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
}}}
It seems that if I remove the need for the Orgs to be a `REQUIRED_FIELD`
the issue goes away. However, it's central to my project and needs to be
defined on every user.
Happy to update the ticket with any other code snippets if required.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019>
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:1>
Comment (by Sergey Yurchenko):
REQUIRED_FIELDS is field special for createsuperuser command.
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/auth/customizing/#django.contrib.auth.models.CustomUser.REQUIRED_FIELDS]
In your forms or API this field would be still required if you remove it
from REQUIRED_FIELDS
I don`t think there is a good way to set m2m fields during creation if
superuser
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:2>
Comment (by Tim Graham):
Similar to foreign keys, ids could be accepted for ManyToManyFields. In
the case of a through model, a helpful error message could be displayed
indicating that it's not supported. In any case, Django shouldn't crash
without a helpful message.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:3>
* owner: nobody => Williams Mendez
* status: new => assigned
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:4>
Comment (by Lenno Nagel):
Hi!
We explored a couple of ideas regarding this during DjangoCon Europe 2018.
The aspect that blocks implementation is the create_superuser function in
the default UserManager class that has no support for M2M field data
present in **kwargs. Such data would have to be extracted from kwargs and
handled after the user.save(..) call, however we did not feel comfortable
with proposing code for this solution without prior discussion.
It was found that it is perhaps best simply to warn the user whenever M2M
fields have been added to REQUIRED_FIELDS and suggest that in this case, a
custom user manager must also be written that handles the data properly.
We could not find a safe way to detect whether the default manager has
been overridden or whether it would handle the M2M field in the
create_superuser function, so this warning has to be marked as ignored
manually by the user.
A proposed solution:
https://github.com/django/django/pull/9990
Regards,
Lenno
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* owner: Williams Mendez => Hasan Ramezani
* has_patch: 0 => 1
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:6>
* needs_better_patch: 0 => 1
* version: 2.0 => master
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* needs_better_patch: 1 => 0
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:8>
* status: assigned => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
In [changeset:"03dbdfd9bbbbd0b0172aad648c6bbe3f39541137" 03dbdfd9]:
{{{
#!CommitTicketReference repository=""
revision="03dbdfd9bbbbd0b0172aad648c6bbe3f39541137"
Fixed #29019 -- Added ManyToManyField support to REQUIRED_FIELDS.
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29019#comment:9>