I have the following environment in Django 1.5.1:
forms.py
class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = User
widgets = {
'username': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Email Address'}),
'first_name': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'First Name'}),
'last_name': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Last Name'}),
'mobile_phone': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Mobile Phone'}),
'office_phone': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Office Phone'}),
}
GROUP_CHOICES = [(-1, '[Select]')]
GROUP_CHOICES += [(group.id, group.name.capitalize()) for group in Group.objects.all()]
username = forms.EmailField(
label='Email Address',
required=True,
validators=[validate_email],
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Email Address'})
)
password1 = forms.CharField(
label='Password',
widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Password'})
)
password2 = forms.CharField(
label='Password confirmation',
widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'class': 'input-xlarge', 'placeholder': 'Password confirmation'})
)
group = forms.ChoiceField(
label='Group',
choices=GROUP_CHOICES
)
def clean_password2(self):
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 clean_group(self):
if self.cleaned_data['group'] == '-1':
raise forms.ValidationError('This field is required.')
return self.cleaned_data['group']
def clean_first_name(self):
if self.cleaned_data['first_name'] == '':
raise forms.ValidationError('This field is required.')
return self.cleaned_data['first_name']
def clean_last_name(self):
if self.cleaned_data['last_name'] == '':
raise forms.ValidationError('This field is required.')
return self.cleaned_data['last_name']
def save(self, commit=True):
user = super(UserForm, self).save(commit=False)
user.set_password(self.cleaned_data['password1'])
user.username = self.cleaned_data['username']
if commit:
user.save()
user.groups.clear()
user.groups.add(self.cleaned_data['group'])
user.save()
return user
models.py
class User(auth.models.User):
mobile_phone = models.CharField(
verbose_name='Mobile Phone',
max_length=50
)
office_phone = models.CharField(
verbose_name='Office Phone',
max_length=50
)
I ALTER the *auth_user* to allow me insert usernames greater than 30 characters long so I would be able to use email as username (I already tried with OneToOneField and with custom model and those approach caused me more work than the expected so I'm not going to take that way)
My questions:
- I had to add first_name and last_name cleaners since auth.models.User doesn't have them as required and the widget object don't allow me to set a required attribute, is this the best approach?
- I'm having just one problem, the username field still has a MaxValueValidator setting 30 at most. How could I vanish it without overriding it in the form. Since I'm using Class Based Views, overriding the fields won't initiate the username field with model data when I try to update the form via UpdateView class, leaving it empty. The remaining fields don't have any problem
Thanks and sorry if my english looks ugly!
