Handle Custom User Model Django-Allauth

Question

I have a custom User Model that extends from Django's User and I want to register that user model instead of only the default one.

For this, I am using the ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS setting as per allauth doc.

This is what I have in settings.py:

ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS = 'myapp.forms.SignupForm'

And in myapp/forms.py:

class SignupForm(UserCreationForm): class Meta(UserCreationForm.Meta): model = MyUser def signup(self, request, user): print('test') user.save() MyUser(user=user).save()

The signup() function should be executed:

This class [SignupForm] should implement a def signup(self, request, user) method, where user represents the newly signed up user.

But it isn't (test is not printed). Only User is saved, MyUser isn't. What am I doing wrong?

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-20 21:57:15Z

You are mixing 2 things here:

You're using ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS in order to tell all-auth what custom signup form to use
Your custom signup form is inheriting from django's own UserCreationForm

In this way signup() method will never be invoke.

If you have a look at this line you'll see that there's the place where the signup() method is invoked. So, if you want to fully leverage all-auth's built-in forms, I'd recommend you inherit SignupForm from all-auth library.

Yet again, judging by your approach, you might wanna consider setting AUTH_USER_MODEL=MyUser.

The AUTH_USER_MODEL approach worked after a bit of tweaking. Thank you so much!

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