Django auth_user_model - django

Question

I'd like to make auth_user_model login but I need to login with Email and Password. So I thought I can do that if I can save email value in 'username' field.
class HeepooUser(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=15, null=True)
allow_phone = models.BooleanField(default=False)
school = models.ForeignKey(School)
date_join = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
def register(request):
registered = False
if request.method == 'POST':
user_form = UserForm(request.POST)
profile_form = RegisterForm(request.POST)
if user_form.is_valid() and profile_form.is_valid():
user = user_form.save(commit=False)
user.set_password(user.password)
user = user_form.save()
profile = profile_form.save(commit=False)
profile.user = user
profile = profile_form.save()
registered = True
return HttpResponseRedirect("/books/")
else:
return HttpResponse('Wrong access1')
else:
user_form = UserForm()
profile_form = RegisterForm()
return render(request, "register.html", {
'user_form': user_form,
'profile_form': profile_form,
'registered': registered,
})
forms.py
class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
email = forms.EmailField(max_length=50, required=True,
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control', }),
)
password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('email', 'password',)
class RegisterForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = HeepooUser
exclude = ('allow_phone', 'user',)
Register.html
<form action="" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ user_form.as_p }}
{{ profile_form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" value="Register">
</form>
Could you please help me on?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You can request the email instead of username to the user in your login form in order to use it for loggin him, then just generate a username for that user, you can do it using his email or name.
EDIT:
You only need to generate an username. Let's say that you are requesting name and last name to the user. Let's create a method to generate it.
def generate_username(first_name, last_name):
username = '%s.%s' % (first_name.lower(), last_name.lower())
username = '{:.29}'.format(username)
counter = User.objects.filter(first_name=first_name,last_name=last_name).count()
if counter > 0:
username += '%s' % (counter + 1)
return username
Then you can use it on your view.
user = user_form.save(commit=False)
user.set_password(user.password)
user.username = generate_username(first_name, last_name)
.....
If you don't want to request first name or last name, you can generate the username using his email too.