Using custom user (AbstractUser) and django-registration

[Arnaud Vandecasteele]

Hi guys,

I've been trying the whole day to use django-registration with a custom user model.

Basically this is what I did :

1/ Create a custom user model (models.py)

class customUser(AbstractUser):
    company_name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

--> My first question is do I need to add "objects = UserManager()" to my model ?

   

2/ Register my new user in the admin interface

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

from .models import customUser
admin.site.register(customUser)

3/ Add my customUser to my settings.py
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'myApp.customUser'

Ok from this point everything works fine !

But my next step was to use django-registration [1] to have a full user creation workflow.

After the installation, when I've tried to register a new user using the registration forms, Django raised this error:
django Manager isn't available; User has been swapped

I've tried different things but none of them have worked.

The only solution I found [2] is by modifying directly django-registration:

Edit registration/forms.py, in the top change
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

to

from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
User = get_user_model()

While I really don't like to change an existing application, after this change I was able to use both django-registration and my custom user.

So I'm sure you can guess my question, is there no other way to do this ? I really would like to keep my code clean without this kind of dirty hack.

Thanks 

Arnaud

[1] https://django-registration.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#
[2] https://sulami.github.io/django-tweaking-custom-user-model-fixes.html

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