When I first started using django I was surprised that it limited usernames and didn't allow email address's by default. It is probably the only thing in the whole framework that I have wanted to change. Yes it would be nice to have a clear solution rather than the approach I have taken which is to modify the source code directly. Although when I was faced with this problem originally I didn't like any of the solutions that were about. In my opinion, this sort of thing should be handled at the framework level.
On Aug 3, 1:36 am, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:56 PM, David Koblas<kob...@extra.com> wrote: > > > Just to add my $0.02 cents to this, I too would like a better way to > > extend django.contrib.auth.models.User than the current approach. The > > two biggest "problems" that I have are: > > > * Everything depends on django.contrib.auth.models.User -- which means > > that while you could swap out your authenticator you still basically > > have to go and rip apart everybody's applications to support your user > > object. > > * To the above point, it also means that to construct your own User > > object means you can't use contrib.admin since it depends on the User > > object. > > > What would be really nice is to have something like: > > django.auth.interface.User > > > Which in turn would instantiate something from settings.USER_MODEL > > (default contrib.auth.modes) this might mean you could subsume > > AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE into the USER_INSTANCE for most developers. Up shot > > is that I can now still use public applications and the admin system, > > but now somebody can just create a "facebook.models.User" class that > > mirrors using facebook as the authenticator and get everything for free... > > You aren't the first person to suggest this, and it's something I'm > interested in looking at in the v1.2 timeframe. This is a very common > question, and one for which Django needs to have a clear and well > documented solution. Ticket #3011 has one solution; I'm not completely > convinced that the patch on that ticket is the whole solution, though. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
