I am attempting to work out how to extend the Django user model to add information to a user. I can't seem to get it to work. What am I doing wrong?
Is it okay to have foreignkeys within the same model I am extending in to? How do you create a superuser, or do you have to do it manually through the python manage.py shell?
Here's my code so far:
class PersonModel(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
firstName = models.CharField(max_length=50)
lastName = models.CharField(max_length=50)
company = models.ForeignKey(CompanyModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
phone = models.ForeignKey(PhoneModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
email = models.EmailField(blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return '%s %s - %s - %s, %s' % (self.firstName, self.lastName,
self.company, self.phone, self.email
)
class Meta:
ordering = ['firstName']
verbose_name = "Customer Contact Information"
#verbose_name_plural = "Contacts"
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
PersonModel.objects.create(user=instance)
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_user_profile(sender, instance, **kwargs):
instance.profile.save()
UPDATE (Final): With the help of raratiru I've been able to mostly get the script he shared going. I still struggle to create a super user because of my foreign key requirements.
from django.contrib.auth.models import (
AbstractBaseUser,
PermissionsMixin,
BaseUserManager,
)
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from customers import models as customers_models
class TravelModel(models.Model):
mileageRate = models.DecimalField(max_digits=4, decimal_places=3)
def __str__(self):
return '%s' % (self.mileageRate)
class Meta:
verbose_name = "Current Federal Milage Rate"
#verbose_name_plural = "Milage"
class UserManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, firstName, lastName, company, phone, password=None, **kwargs):
email = self.normalize_email(email)
user = self.model(email=email, **kwargs)
user.firstName = firstName
user.lastName = lastName
user.company = company
user.phone = phone
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_superuser(self, email, firstName, lastName, password=None, **kwargs):
#user = self.create_user(**kwargs)
email = self.normalize_email(email)
user = self.model(email=email, **kwargs)
user.firstName = firstName
user.lastName = lastName
user.set_password(password)
user.is_superuser = True
user.is_staff = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class AliasField(models.Field):
def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name, virtual_only=False):
super().contribute_to_class(cls, name, virtual_only=True)
setattr(cls, name, self)
def __get__(self, instance, instance_type=None):
return getattr(instance, self.db_column)
class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
firstName = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=False, null=False)
lastName = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=False, null=False)
company = models.ForeignKey(customers_models.CompanyModel, on_delete=models.PROTECT, null=False)
phone = models.ForeignKey(customers_models.PhoneModel, on_delete=models.PROTECT, null=False)
email = models.EmailField(_('email address'), max_length=255, unique=True)
is_staff = models.BooleanField(
_('staff status'),
default=False,
help_text=_(
'Designates whether the user can log into this admin '
'site.'
)
)
is_active = models.BooleanField(
_('active'),
default=True,
help_text=_(
'Designates whether this user should be treated as '
'active. Unselect this instead of deleting accounts.'
)
)
username = AliasField(db_column='email')
objects = UserManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['firstName','lastName',]
class Meta(object):
ordering = ['firstName']
verbose_name = _('Contact')
verbose_name_plural = _('Contacts')
def __str__(self):
return '%s - %s %s - %s - %s' % (self.company, self.firstName, self.lastName, self.email, self.phone)
def get_full_name(self):
return self.email
def get_short_name(self):
return self.email
def email_user(self, subject, message, from_email=None, **kwargs):
"""
Sends an email to this User.
"""
send_mail(subject, message, from_email, [self.email], **kwargs)
To circumvent the foreignkey struggles, the easiest solution is to remove the null=False requirement before creating the superuser - assign a company and phone after - and set null back to false afterwards.
