CustomUser

[lrnzdc3696]

Context:
I am working on a route where a person can make an account. I have made a custom user because I want them to be able to make an account via email and not username.

Problem:
The code is not "dynamic" because the username is hardcoded.
In here the username is hard coded.

django-rest-framework/rest_framework/authtoken/serializers.py

Line 8 in 070c32f

username = serializers.CharField(

I don't want to use a third party lib.
I don't want to do some hacky stuff.

Solution in mind:
maybe use the get_user_model?

[foarsitter]

But do you want to override the ObtainAuthToken(APIView) class with an custom serializer class?

[lrnzdc3696]

I already have

[foarsitter]

Well, then what is the problemen?

[lrnzdc3696]

It would be much nicer if I don't have to subclass and overwrite stuff.

[hashlash]

Can't you just pass the user's email as username?

And just to make sure, have you set your custom user model's USERNAME_FIELD to your mail field?

[lrnzdc3696]

Well I can, but people might get confused about it.

[hashlash]

I don't have any particular stand on this.

You could tell your front-end developers if you are building a private API. Or, if it's for public API, you could give an help_text on the docs.

But if you insist that this must be a feature, I think it's more proper to be on the Ideas & Suggestions category. 🙂

[lrnzdc3696]

alright thank you