Customize the djoser create user endpoint - django

Question

I am using djoser for auth purposes. I want to customize the create user end point of djoser. I have a User app. Here is my User model
from django.db import models
class User(models.Model):
email = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
account_address = models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=False)
password = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False)
and here is my serializer
from rest_framework import serializers
from User.models import User
class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('url', 'id', 'email', 'name', 'last_name', 'account_address', 'password')
and my User.urls.py looks like following
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from rest_framework.routers import DefaultRouter
from .views import UserViewSet
router = DefaultRouter()
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include(router.urls)),
url(r'^account/', include('djoser.urls')),
]
and project's url.py is follwing
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from django.conf.urls import include, url
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^users/', include('User.urls')),
url(r'^advertisements', include('advertisements.urls')),
url(r'^account', include('wallet.urls')),
]
but i am unable to create user with customized model instead when i go to user/account/create i see djoser's default create user view. Anybody please tell where I am doing wrong. Thanks :)

Answer 1

Having in mind that you have set the AUTH_USER_MODEL to your User model.
Just import the Djoser User Registration Serializer And override it.
from djoser.serializers import UserCreateSerializer as BaseUserRegistrationSerializer
class UserRegistrationSerializer(BaseUserRegistrationSerializer):
class Meta(BaseUserRegistrationSerializer.Meta):
fields = ('url', 'id', 'email', 'name', 'last_name', 'account_address', 'password', )
You can also override other things in the serializer like create and update methods in case if you want to customize it.
And in settings.py
DJOSER = {
...
'SERIALIZERS': {
'user_create': 'yourapp.serializer.UserRegistrationSerializer'
}
...
}

Answer 2

For me, I wanted to write a custom create method and it worked when I override user_create_password_retype and used mine since this is internally using the UserCreateSerializer from djoser
DJOSER = {
...
"SERIALIZERS": {
"user_create": "account.serializers.user_serializer.CustomUserCreateSerializer",
"user": "account.serializers.user_serializer.CustomUserSerializer",
"user_create_password_retype": "account.serializers.user_serializer.UserCreatePasswordRetypeSerializer",
}
...
}
Other settings -
AUTH_USER_MODEL to your custom User model.