#3011: Allow for extendable auth_user module
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Reporter: nowell strite | Owner: dan
Status: assigned | Milestone:
Component: Contrib apps | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: auth_user
Stage: Accepted | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 1 | Needs_tests: 1
Needs_better_patch: 1 |
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Changes (by wkornewald):
* cc: wkornewald (added)
Comment:
So, what's going to happen with this ticket? It's on the list of ideas for
Summer of Code 2009.
We really need this feature and we'd like to have an officially supported
API for this. Django's default user comes with first_name and last_name
which is too specific for us. We only have full_name and calculated
@property for first_name and last_name. Also, we don't have usernames. In
a lot of cases email is sufficient, so why should the user bother about
inventing a username? Of course, this means that in our case email should
be a required and unique field.
Moreover, code that uses get_profile() is just more annoying to write and
you have to call select_related(). It's much easier to have all user
fields in the User model. Our code has definitely become easier to work
with since we eliminated the profile model and put everything into the
User.
In our app-engine-patch project (a Django port to App Engine) we have
something similar:
http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/wiki/CustomUserModel
We also allow for overriding the AnonymousUser (which sometimes needs
additional attributes, too).
Now that I think about it, the AUTH_ADMIN_MODULE stuff isn't necessary
because you can easily register this in some other app's admin.py.
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