Custom user model in Django and super user - django

Question

I am using Django as backend for my mobile app. When creating users info I need the following info:name, DoB and firebaseUID. Please note that I do not want their email or password. But I want to create superusers who act as admins and want the superusers to be created using email and password. So I am not sure if I have to:
Create a custom user by extending AbstractBaseUser and have a user manager attached to that custom user OR
Create a custom user by extending AbstractBaseUser and then create another Django user class which is only for superusers.
I implemented option 1 with the below code, but I get the following error: "TypeError: MyUserManager.create_superuser() missing 1 required positional argument: 'email'" Also when I am creating superuser, Django is asking for name, firebaseUID and DOB fields although I want to create superusers only email and password fields.
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
class MyUserManager(models.Manager):
def _create_user(self, email, password, **extra_fields):
"""
Creates and saves a User with the given email and password.
"""
if not email:
raise ValueError('The given email must be set')
email = self.normalize_email(email)
user = self.model(email=email, **extra_fields)
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_user(self, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields):
extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', False)
extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', False)
return self._create_user(email, password, **extra_fields)
def create_superuser(self, email, password, **extra_fields):
extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)
if extra_fields.get('is_staff') is not True:
raise ValueError('Superuser must have is_staff=True.')
if extra_fields.get('is_superuser') is not True:
raise ValueError('Superuser must have is_superuser=True.')
return self._create_user(email, password, **extra_fields)
def get_by_natural_key(self, email):
return self.get(email=email)
class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser):
name = models.CharField(null=True, blank=True, max_length=100)
userName = models.CharField(
null=True, blank=True, max_length=100, unique=True)
firebaseUid = models.CharField(
null=True, blank=True, max_length=100, unique=True)
dob = models.DateField(max_length=8)
created_at = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
email = models.EmailField(unique=True) #used only for createing super user at this point
is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)
# countryCode = models.CharField(null=True, blank=True, max_length=5)
USERNAME_FIELD = 'userName'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['name', 'firebaseUid', 'dob']
objects = MyUserManager()
def __str__(self):
return self.userName
def get_fBaseUid_name(self):
return self.firebaseUid
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return self.is_superuser
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
return self.is_superuser
Please let me know if you need any other info. Thank you in advance!
Edit: I already added the following in my settings.py file
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "accounts.CustomUser"
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ['accounts.backends.FirebaseBackend']
Tl;dr: I want regular users to be created using different fields than creating a superuser.

Answer 1

Has your User model been specified in your settings.py?
If it hasn't, specify it
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "yourapp.UserModel"
Also, in your CustomUser model
Do this
# For creating a superuser using Django
REQUIRED_FIELDS = []
And if you want to create users with "email" and "password", not "username" and "password"
Do this
USERNAME_FIELD = "email"
You can use this code for your create_superuser as well
def create_superuser(self, email, password=None):
if password is None:
raise TypeError("Password should not be none")
user = self.create_user(email, password)
user.is_superuser = True
user.is_staff = True
user.save()
return user
I hope that helps