Django REST - rest_auth custom fields not being serialized - django

Question

I'm using Django REST with the rest_auth package, and I'm having an issue with serializing custom fields when registering a new user.
The field "is_employer" is always set to false even when you set it to true. Also in the API if you set the is_employer checkbox to true, it doesn't change anything. I added it in models, serializers and adapter, what am I missing?
MODELS:
class MyUserManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, password=None):
if not email:
raise ValueError('Users must have an email address')
user = self.model(
email=self.normalize_email(email),
)
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_superuser(self, email, password):
user = self.create_user(
email=self.normalize_email(email),
password=password,
)
user.is_admin = True
user.is_staff = True
user.is_superuser = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser):
username = None
first_name = None
last_name = None
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name='email address', max_length=255, unique=True)
date_joined = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name='date joined', auto_now_add=True)
last_login = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name='last login', auto_now=True)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_employer = models.BooleanField(default=False)
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = []
objects = MyUserManager()
def __str__(self):
return self.email
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return self.is_admin
def has_module_perms(selfself, app_label):
return True;
SERIALIZERS:
from django.contrib.auth.hashers import make_password
from rest_framework import serializers
from rest_auth.registration.serializers import RegisterSerializer
from users.models import CustomUser
class CustomRegisterSerializer(RegisterSerializer):
def get_cleaned_data(self):
data_dict = super().get_cleaned_data()
data_dict['is_employer'] = self.validated_data.get('is_employer', '')
return data_dict
ADAPTER:
class CustomAccountAdapter(DefaultAccountAdapter):
def save_user(self, request, user, form, commit=False):
user = super().save_user(request, user, form, commit)
data = form.cleaned_data
user.is_employer = data.get('is_employer')
user.save()
return user

Answer 1

First, set the is_employer field explicitly in the CustomRegisterSerializer class
from rest_auth.registration.serializers import RegisterSerializer
class CustomRegisterSerializer(RegisterSerializer):
is_employer = serializers.BooleanField(default=True)
def get_cleaned_data(self):
data_dict = super().get_cleaned_data()
data_dict['is_employer'] = self.validated_data.get('is_employer', False)
return data_dict
then in your settings.py update the serializer as
# settings.py
REST_AUTH_REGISTER_SERIALIZERS = {
"REGISTER_SERIALIZER": "dotted.path.to.CustomRegisterSerializer"
}