On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Abdulaziz Alfoudari < aziz.alfoud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a continuation of my post on > stackoverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18769729/django-removing-username-from-user-model> > . > > With the introduction of Django 1.5, it was possible to create a custom > User model which is flexible enough to have any user profile the developer > wants created. However, looking at a very common problem which is using the > email as the primary user identifier instead of username, the solution > requires copying most of Django's internal definition of AbstractUser and > that is only to remove the username field. > > A better solution in my opinion is make AbstractUser even more abstract by > removing username field, and allowing the developer to explicitly specify > the field to be used as the user identifier. This will require a tiny extra > work for those that use the current default behavior, but it will also > greatly reduce the work needed for the very common problem of using email > as the user identifier. > > Please share your thoughts and opinions on this. > The short answer: this isn't going to happen. AbstractUser is a released and documented API, so we're not in a position to change it in the way you describe without causing massive inconvenience to everyone that is using it at present (at least, I don't see an obvious way that this could be done). However, ticket #20824 describes a proposal to add an email-login analog of Django's built-in user. This would make introduction of email-based login a matter of 2 lines of configuration. This ticket is really just waiting on someone to prepare a patch… and it should be a relatively simple patch to prepare. If you're looking to get involved in Django development, this would be an easy place to start. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
