Allauth Users

Allauth Users
Author

Benedict Thekkel

Install

poetry add django-allauth

Create accounts app

python manage.py startapp accounts

Create a Custom User Model

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager, PermissionsMixin
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone

class CustomUserManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, password=None, **extra_fields):
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('The Email field must be set')
        email = self.normalize_email(email)
        user = self.model(email=email, **extra_fields)
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save(using=self._db)
        return user

    def create_superuser(self, email, password=None, **extra_fields):
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)

        return self.create_user(email, password, **extra_fields)

class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    date_joined = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

    objects = CustomUserManager()

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['first_name', 'last_name']

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

Update settings.py

in myproject/settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # Django apps...
    'django.contrib.sites',  # Required by django-allauth

    'allauth',
    'allauth.account',
    'allauth.socialaccount',

    'accounts',  # Your custom app
]

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.CustomUser'

SITE_ID = 1

# Authentication backends
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend',
)

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = '/'

# Optional: Email configuration for allauth
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'

# Custom allauth forms
ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = 'email'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = 'mandatory'
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False
ACCOUNT_USER_MODEL_USERNAME_FIELD = None
ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS = 'accounts.forms.CustomSignupForm'

Create a Custom Signup Form

In accounts/forms.py

from django import forms
from allauth.account.forms import SignupForm

class CustomSignupForm(SignupForm):
    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, label='First Name')
    last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, label='Last Name')

    def save(self, request):
        user = super(CustomSignupForm, self).save(request)
        user.first_name = self.cleaned_data['first_name']
        user.last_name = self.cleaned_data['last_name']
        user.save()
        return user

Create Forms

In accounts/forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from .models import CustomUser

class CustomUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
    class Meta:
        model = CustomUser
        fields = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'password1', 'password2')

class CustomUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):
    class Meta:
        model = CustomUser
        fields = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'password', 'is_active', 'is_staff')

Register the Custom User Model in the Admin

In accounts/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from .models import CustomUser
from .forms import CustomUserCreationForm, CustomUserChangeForm

class CustomUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    add_form = CustomUserCreationForm
    form = CustomUserChangeForm
    model = CustomUser

    list_display = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'is_staff', 'is_active')
    list_filter = ('is_staff', 'is_active')
    search_fields = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name')
    ordering = ('email',)

    fieldsets = (
        (None, {'fields': ('email', 'password')}),
        ('Personal Info', {'fields': ('first_name', 'last_name')}),
        ('Permissions', {'fields': ('is_staff', 'is_active', 'is_superuser')}),
        ('Important dates', {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')}),
    )
    add_fieldsets = (
        (None, {
            'classes': ('wide',),
            'fields': ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'password1', 'password2', 'is_staff', 'is_active')}
        ),
    )

admin.site.register(CustomUser, CustomUserAdmin)

Set Up URLs

myproject/urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('accounts/', include('allauth.urls')),  # allauth URLs
]

Run Migrations

May need to recreate the database

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