I am using Django Rest framework for my application. I almost implemented registration and login process using django User Model without customizing it now i want to add a uuid field in it. Is there any way we can just add uuid field and other process remains same?
Adding UUIDField to existing models is not so easy but you can read an How-To in the official Django documentation in the specific section (I updated it few months ago) :
Migrations that add unique fields.
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I am new to Django.
I am going to build simple register and login fullstack application by using React and Django.
My problem is when I received register request with form data.
Is it ok to create custom table for users?
I am going to create another table related to user table.
So in that case, there must be id in the users.
That's why I am going to create custom table.
Please help me it is good practice.
You can abstract from AbstractBaseUser and then you can customise the user model and to specify it in your settings file.
Please see the django documentation here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/auth/customizing/#substituting-a-custom-user-model
In Django you can link between multiple table by different relationships depends on what you want like:
OneToOne
ForeignKey
ManyToMany
And by default when you create a model django create a pk field it is ID for table, you can make another field as a primary key for model
When you use one of those relationships django by default use model id to link between them
and you can also create a custom user model to use it
Good luck
I'm trying to learn how to use Authy/Twilio in a new Django app. I found this helpful demo application https://github.com/TwilioDevEd/account-security-quickstart-django which I was reading through to see how it all worked. I noticed in the settings.py file they referenced a custom user model, which I found here. The custom model looks very basic and doesn't have much of the info stored in the regular user model.
My questions are:
Is it required to use this custom model or can you somehow add the
required info into the existing/default user model?
How would this integrate with Django apps using something else (like
ldap) as the backend instead of the django db user model?
I have recently migrated a website from Django 1.6 to Django 1.8 and I can't figure out the simple way to fix the behaviour of django admin when it displays foreignkey fields that use the "raw_id_fields" in the adminClass.
The use case is exactly the one from django book : http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter06.html (Figure 6-14)
class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
...
raw_id_fields = ('publisher',)
Administration display used to have a spyglass at the end allowing to pick a new foreignkey id, but now none is displayed.
Documentation hint's at some new mechanism but it's unclear how to apply it here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.formfield_overrides
Thanks
As often, the problem was elsewhere, the statics from the admin had not been updated and i was using an older version of admin static files.
a simple python manage.py collectatic command fixed this issue.
For future reference, any issue with admin should start by making sure statics are up to date.
this is my first question on stackoverflow. I am a beginner programmer and kind of have issues with programming logic.
My issue is that I have a model(which happens to be a form) which collects important information from the users, I want to be able relate this model with the individual user since it has the information about them that I need.
Any form of help is appreciated...By the way am using the Django web framework.
Before 1.5: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#auth-profiles, add a model that links OneToOne to the User model provided by Django and telling about that model in settings.py with the global AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE
After 1.5: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#auth-custom-user, the previous method is deprecated. Now you have to fully customize the User model provided by Django.
If you are a new user, I suggest the following links:
EXTENDING USER MODEL IN DJANGO
Storing additional information about users
Generally, you create a normal model with a foreign key to the Django User model. Then add any other fields you would want to store for a user e.g. date of birth, website, favorite color, etc.
I just started a Django project (there are no apps in it). I activated the admin in settings file and can access the Django administration page. There is a column in Django page to add users; while adding users I get only three fields under personnal info, but I need to store some more information about users. I Googled around and found that I can use user profiles to accomplish this. I tried, but I am having problems.
My aim is to add three more fields to the user table:
role
contact number
other
I need details like: which function I need to write and where to do this.
I found this, but I do not know where I need to write these steps. I would greatly appreciate a more clear explanation of this.
Django User Profiles is what you need. The blog you linked to has clear steps on how to do it. You can check out the Django documentation. http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/django-profile also provides a good explanation.
Basically you need to create a new model with User as ForeignKey and define the model in the settings.py as AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = "django_app.your_profile_modelname". Create the profile and save it just like any other model, and access it using user.get_profile()
Adding a couple of things in response to your questions below:
First, do not create apps as a directory. Use startapp <appname> [destination] as described here. That will create the app directory.
Second, you have to add the app to INSTALLED_APPS in the project's settings file, do a syncdb. Basically, follow the steps in Django tutorial on writing your first app.
Third, UserProfile is a separate model. It is not an extension of User. It is associated with the User just because you added User as the ForeignKey.
Fourth, to be able to see the user profile model in admin, you do exactly what you would do to add any other model to admin page. Create a file names admin.py under your app with:
from django.contrib import admin
from myproject.app.models import UserProfile
admin.site.register(UserProfile)
There are three key concepts to understand:
There is no built in "profile" system in Django, beyond the limited auth app which is really geared just to user login. You are expected to roll your own.
There is nothing magical about a profile record in itslef, it is just like any other record that takes User as a foreign key (or, more properly, a one-to-one field as per the docs). You create it by creating a custom django app (traditionally called profiles) and a model for that app (traditionally called UserProfile, since Profile is not allowed as a model name).
The only thing that sets UserProfile aparts as a model is that you specify it as the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE which means that it is accessible when called .get_profile() on a User record. That's it. If you set up the UserProfile like so:
def UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
other fields
then you can also access the profile as user.profile rather than user.get_profile() which some people prefer.
Again, nothing magical about the profile model -- it is just a model record like any other model record.
If you want to be able to edit additional fields within the user form that's more complicated; easiest way is probable unregister User and then register it again using your custom ModelAdmin and form class but judging by your question you're probably not at that level yet.