I also checked the documentation of it but I am confuse. It says "Instead
of referring to User
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/auth/#django.contrib.auth.models.User>
directly, you should reference the user model using
django.contrib.auth.get_user_model(). This method will return the currently
active user model – the custom user model if one is specified, or User
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/auth/#django.contrib.auth.models.User>
otherwise." When it says "currently active user mode" is it the model that
I created in models.py or the one that is currently logged in to the
website? what does "or User otherwise" mean?
My apologies for asking too many questions.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:39 AM, tango ward <tangowar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am playing around with user registration. I came across a code where the
> get_user_model() was assigned to a model in Meta class inside a form. I was
> just wondering, what is the benefit of using the get_user_model() as Model
> in a form instead of importing a class from models.py then use that class
> as model of the form and when should I use it?
>
> models.py
> class RegUser(User):
>
> def __str__(self):
> return self.username
>
> forms.py
>
> class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
>
> class Meta:
> fields = ('username', 'password1', 'password2')
> model = get_user_model()
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jarvis
>
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