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Python Django Authentication Users and Authorization Custom User Manager

Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
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Posted by Chris Komaroff
Chris Komaroff
Courses Plus Student 14,198 Points

Code Challenge - custom user manager - error "User's password wasn't set correctly"

Is there something I am missing, a hint I did not understand? This code is similar to Django docs "full example" https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/customizing/#a-full-example, as well as the example in the video.

Current error message: "User's password wasn't set correctly"

Thank you!

accounts/models.py 
from django.contrib.auth.models import BaseUserManager

class UserManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, dob, accepted_tos=None, password=None):
        if not accepted_tos or accepted_tos is None:
            raise ValueError("TOS not accepted or missing!")

        user = self.model(
            email=self.normalize_email(email),
            date_of_birth=dob,
        )

        user.set_password(password)
        user.save()
        return user

1 Answer

Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
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Chris Komaroff
Chris Komaroff
Courses Plus Student 14,198 Points

Well I accidentally cheated when I started work on the next code challenge for custom user model (on the next video):

        user = self.model(
            email=self.normalize_email(email),
            dob=dob,
            accepted_tos=True
        )

So you have to set accepted_tos=True "explicitly", maybe if accepted_tos argument is either not boolean or maybe is not well defined. Also the dob field really 'dob' and not 'date_of_birth' like BaseUserManager has in docs (I think).

The error message "User's password wasn't set correctly" was bogus. Kinda thought so since it was the easiest part of the code challenge.

Bernardo Augusto García Loaiza
Bernardo Augusto García Loaiza
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Bernardo Augusto García Loaiza
Bernardo Augusto García Loaiza
Courses Plus Student 792 Points

Chris Komaroff thanks for the tip.

My code section stayed of this way:

from django.contrib.auth.models import BaseUserManager


class UserManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, dob, accepted_tos=None, password=None):
        if not accepted_tos or accepted_tos is None:
            raise ValueError("Users must accept the terms")
        user  = self.model(
            # make sure that all the email addresses throughout your app are formatted the same way
            email = self.normalize_email(email),
            dob = dob,
            accepted_tos = True
        )
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save()
        return user