Django custom user passwords not being hashed - django

Question

I created custom user models as so:
class UserAccount(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
email = models.EmailField(max_length=255, unique=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
objects = UserAccountManager()
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['name']
def get_full_name(self):
return self.name
def get_short_name(self):
return self.name
def __str__(self):
return self.email
manager:
class UserAccountManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, name, password=None):
if not email:
raise ValueError('Users must have unique email address')
email = self.normalize_email(email)
user = self.model(email=email, name=name)
user.set_password(password)
user.save()
return user
def create_superuser(self, email, name, password):
user = self.create_user(email, name, password)
user.is_superuser = True
user.is_staff = True
user.save()
return user
I have called the user.set_password(password) in the manager, yet it is not hashing it. For this, I can't login! Here is the view that I used for the signup process:
class SignupView(APIView):
permission_classes = (permissions.AllowAny,)
def post(self, request, format=None):
data = self.request.data
name = data['name']
email = data['email']
password = data['password']
password2 = data['password2']
if password == password2:
if User.objects.filter(email=email).exists():
return Response({'error': 'Email already exists'})
if len(password) < 6:
return Response({'error': 'Password must be more than 6 characters in length'})
user = User.objects.create(email=email, password=password, name=name)
user.save()
return Response({'success': 'User created successfully'})
return Response({'error': 'Passwords do not match'})
I have seen other solutions but they were related to serializers. In my case I have not used any serializer. How do i fix this?

Answer 1

You should not call .create(…), but .create_user(…):
class SignupView(APIView):
permission_classes = (permissions.AllowAny,)
def post(self, request, format=None):
data = self.request.data
name = data['name']
email = data['email']
password = data['password']
password2 = data['password2']
if password == password2:
if User.objects.filter(email=email).exists():
return Response({'error': 'Email already exists'})
if len(password) < 6:
return Response({'error': 'Password must be more than 6 characters in length'})
user = User.objects.create_user(email=email, password=password, name=name)
user.save()
return Response({'success': 'User created successfully'})
return Response({'error': 'Passwords do not match'})