It took me a ridiculously long and frustrating time to work out how to do this, so I’m documenting what I’ve done in the hope that it helps someone else. If you want to extend the Django user model (to create a user profile, as described in the docs https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model) to create a user profile, and to still use Django-allauth you might as well give up on the documentation: it’s not going to help you. But what you need to do is fairly simple:
models.py
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=100)
forms.py
class SignupForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'phone', 'type')
# A custom method required to work with django-allauth, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12303478/how-to-customize-user-profile-when-using-django-allauth
def signup(self, request, user):
# Save your user
user.first_name = self.cleaned_data['first_name']
user.last_name = self.cleaned_data['last_name']
user.save()
# Save your profile
profile = Profile()
profile.user = user
profile.phone = self.cleaned_data['phone']
profile.type = self.cleaned_data['type']
profile.save()
settings.py
# Required by django-allauth to extend the sign up form to include profile data ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS = 'core.forms.SignupForm'
I’m not sure why I thought that django-allauth would take care of saving user profiles when it very explicitly says it doesn’t do anything apart from authentication. I suppose we should count ourselves lucky that it’s easy to extend the form to include additional profile fields.
Hi I Googled ‘allauth frustration’ and arrived here. Glad to see someone else having difficulty with the documentation, it is terrible, really difficult to use. I wish they would give examples and show how to set templates for signin and signup. So my problem isn’t the same as yours but thanks for posting anyway.
Thanks man for postings this, short and clear.
Is this somehow registered in the admin panel ?
I didn’t use the admin panel for this, sorry. I’m sure it is possible to do just by registering the profile as a modeladmin object, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/admin/#modeladmin-objects
Maybe this will be useful too http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4565814/django-user-userprofile-and-admin
Good luck!
Thanks a lot. Your code was clean and efficient. After several hours of struggling to add extra fields to Profile, I rechecked yours. You saved my day, or more. -k
I changed
profile.user = user
to:
profile.user_id = user.id,
because profile.user is non-NULLable.
thanks.
Thanks Kim.
i tried this code but iam getting this error during signup .
IntegrityError at /accounts/signup/
accounts_userprofile.user_id may not be NULL
Have you tried Kim’s addition? See his/her comment.
Thank you, this was helpful !
I did an improvement into your solution to avoid unnecessary fields on profile Models
http://stackoverflow.com/a/43299758/3530286