I'm trying to set up my custom user model in Django. The reason is that I want to use email as the username, and remove the username field entirely. I've run into a error, that I just can't figure out.
Manager isn't available; User has been swapped for 'app.MyUser'
Exception Location: .../django/db/models/manager.py in __get__, line 256
Python Version: 2.7.3
Python Path:
[...project specific files,
'/usr/lib/python2.7',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']
I've googled like crazy, but haven't found too many pages about this error message. I have found some pages, with suggestions on how to solve it, but none of the suggestions have worked for me.
My code: I've set the custom user model. I have declared the custom user model AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'app.MyUser'
in settings.py. I have also set up a custom UserManager:
class MyUserManager(BaseUserManager):
def create_user(self, email, password=None):
"""
Creates and saves a User with the given email. Note that none of the optional fields gets values in the creation. These fields will have to be filled out later on.
"""
if not email:
raise ValueError('Users must have an email address')
user = self.model(email=MyUserManager.normalize_email(email))
user.set_password(password)
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
def create_superuser(self, email, password=None):
"""
Creates and saves a superuser with the the above mentioned attributes
"""
user = self.create_user(email, password=password)
user.is_admin = True
user.save(using=self._db)
return user
class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
"""
Custom made User model. No username, instead email is used as unique field and index
"""
Genders = (('M', 'Man'), ('K', 'Woman'))
FirstName = models.CharField(max_length=30)
LastName = models.CharField(max_length=40)
Gender = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=Genders, default='K')
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name='email address', max_length=255, unique=True, db_index=True,)
twitter = models.CharField(max_length=30)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = []
def get_full_name(self):
# The user is identified by their email address
return self.email
def get_short_name(self):
# The user is identified by their email address
return self.email
def __unicode__(self):
return self.email
objects = MyUserManager()
I've tried to declare to different types of UserAdmins, none of which is making any difference,the first one I tried was;
class MyUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
# The forms to add and change user instances
#form = UserChangeForm
#add_form = FrontpageRegistrationForm
list_display = ('email', 'FirstName', 'LastName', 'Gender', 'twitter')
list_filter = ()
add_fieldsets = ((None, {'classes': ('wide',),'fields': ('email', 'password1', 'password2')}),)
search_fields = ('email',)
ordering = ('email',)
filter_horizontal = ()
admin.site.register(MyUser, MyUserAdmin)
I've commented out the two attributes add_form
and form
because they raised some form errors I wanted to get back to at a later point.
The second UserAdmin was made, after reading about a possible fix here. This didn't help the situation though;
class MyUserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
# The forms to add and change user instances
#form = UserChangeForm
add_form = FrontpageRegistrationForm
add_fieldsets = ((None, {'classes': ('wide',),'fields': ('email', 'password1', 'password2')}),)
def get_fieldsets(self, request, obj=None):
if not obj:
return self.add_fieldsets
return super(MyUserAdmin, self).get_fieldsets(request, obj)
def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
defaults = {}
if obj is None:
defaults.update({'form': self.add_form,'fields': admin.util.flatten_fieldsets(self.add_fieldsets),})
defaults.update(kwargs)
return super(MyUserAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **defaults)
I've also tried deleting all tables in the db with no luck.
I would be eternally greatful to anyone who even looks at the problem. And if any one were to solve this, I would try my best to talk my wife into naming our firstborn after the Avatar that gave me a solution so that I could go on living my life.
EDIT:
I tried setting the AUTH_USER_MODEL
to mainfolder.app.MyUser
I'm sure the "mainfolder" is on the pythonpath. init.py in the app should be correct. The new settings.py gave the following server error; auth.user: AUTH_USER_MODEL is not of the form 'app_label.app_name'.admin.logentry: 'user' has a relation with model smartflightsearch.SFSdb.MyUser, which has either not been installed or is abstract.registration.registrationprofile: 'user' has a relation with model, which has either not been installed or is abstract.
A new clue I don't know how to interpret..