Django-rest-auth (dj-rest-auth) custom user registration - django

Question

I'm using dj-rest-auth (https://dj-rest-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and trying to implement a custom registration form. When I'm trying to register a new user I have the base form.
I've seen with the older version (https://django-rest-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that if you use password1 and password2, you don't have to retype all the code.
serializers.py
from rest_framework import serializers
from dj_rest_auth.registration.serializers import RegisterSerializer
class CustomRegisterSerializer(RegisterSerializer):
first_name = serializers.CharField()
last_name = serializers.CharField()
def get_cleaned_data(self):
super(CustomRegisterSerializer, self).get_cleaned_data()
return {
'username': self.validated_data.get('username', ''),
'password1': self.validated_data.get('password1', ''),
'password2': self.validated_data.get('password2', ''),
'email': self.validated_data.get('email', ''),
'first_name': self.validated_data.get('first_name', ''),
'last_name': self.validated_data.get('last_name', '')
}
settings.py
REST_AUTH_SERIALIZERS = {
'REGISTER_SERIALIZER': 'accounts.serializers.CustomRegisterSerializer',
}

Answer 1

The problem was in settings.py:
REST_AUTH_REGISTER_SERIALIZERS = {
'REGISTER_SERIALIZER': 'accounts.serializers.CustomRegisterSerializer'
}

Answer 2

You can create your own User and make it the AUTH_USER_MODEL of your project with something like this:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser, BaseUserManager
class MyUserManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, username,first_name, last_name, password=None):
user = self.model(
email=self.normalize_email(email),
username=username,
)
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_superuser(self,email, username, password, first_name, last_name, is_tutor, is_student):
user = self.create_user(
email=self.normalize_email(email),
username=username,
password=password,
first_name=first_name,
last_name=last_name,
)
user.is_staff = True
user.is_admin = True
user.is_superuser = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class User(AbstractBaseUser):
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name='email', max_length=60, unique=True)
username = models.CharField(max_length=30, unique=True)
date_joined = models.DateField(verbose_name='date joined', auto_now_add=True)
last_login = models.DateField(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)
rating = models.FloatField(default=0, blank=True, null=True)
reviews_count = models.IntegerField(default=0)
first_name = models.CharField(verbose_name='first_name', max_length=30)
last_name = models.CharField(verbose_name='last_name', max_length=30)
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
#this field means that when you try to sign in the username field will be the email
#change it to whatever you want django to see as the username when authenticating the user
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['username', 'first_name', 'last_name',]
objects = MyUserManager()
def __str__(self):
return self.first_name + ' - ' + self.email
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
return self.is_admin
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
return True
Then in settings.py you declare the AUTH_USER_MODEL = "to the model you just created" and in serializers.py create a serializer for the user registration:
class UserRegistrationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
password2 = serializers.CharField(style={'input_type':'password'}, write_only=True)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ['username', 'email', 'first_name','last_name',
'password', 'password2',]
extra_kwargs = {
'password': {
'write_only':True
}
}
def save(self):
user = User(
email=self.validated_data['email'],
username=self.validated_data['username'],
first_name=self.validated_data['first_name'],
last_name=self.validated_data['last_name'],
is_tutor=self.validated_data['is_tutor'],
is_student=self.validated_data['is_student'],
)
password = self.validated_data['password']
password2 = self.validated_data['password2']
if password != password2:
raise serializers.ValidationError({'password':'Passwords must match.'})
user.set_password(password)
user.save()
return user
then you register your custom user model in the django admin
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
class AccountAdmin(UserAdmin):
list_display = ('email', 'username','pk', 'date_joined', 'last_login', 'is_admin', 'is_staff')
search_fields = ('email', 'username')
readonly_fields = ('date_joined', 'last_login')
filter_horizontal = ()
list_filter = ()
fieldsets = ()
admin.site.register(User, AccountAdmin)
I hope this helps or at least point you in the right direction to where you want to be