Django custom user shows as AbstractBaseUser rather AbstractUser

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I’m not sure about how to go about debugging this. I’ll try and explain as well as I can but if you need additional information then please let me know.

I have a custom user model like so:

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True, blank=False, null=False)
    email_verified = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    email_verify_code = models.UUIDField(editable=False, null=True, blank=True)
    email_verify_code_expired = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)

and in my custom login view I have this:

username = form.cleaned_data.get('username')
password = form.cleaned_data.get('password')
user = authenticate(self.request, username=username, password=password)

when I try and do:

user.email_verified

it says that the email_verified field does not exist.

I noticed that PyCharm reports the user model as being an AbstractBaseUser but I have no idea why.

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

2

Please provide the full context where you’re trying to use this - what file / function / module?

AbstractUser is a descendant class of AbstractBaseUser.

3

Here is my login view:

class CustomLoginView(FormView):
    template_name = 'registration/login.html'
    form_class = AuthenticationForm
    success_url = reverse_lazy('user:account')  # Redirect to the account page after login

def form_valid(self, form):
    username = form.cleaned_data.get('username')
    password = form.cleaned_data.get('password')
    user = authenticate(self.request, username=username, password=password)
    if user is not None:
        if user.email_verified is False:
            return render(self.request, 'registration/login.html', {
                'form': form,
                'error': 'Email not verified. Please check your email for verification link.'
            })
        else:
            login(self.request, user)
            return redirect(self.get_success_url())
    else:
        return self.form_invalid(form)
4

What is your AuthenticationForm?

5

Just the default one:

django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm
6

Did you set the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting in your settings.py?

7

Yes I did. I just double checked.

8

Side note: I hope your posting of the CustomLoginView is not exactly as it exists in your source file - your form_valid method is not indented within your CustomLoginView class.

Please post your complete settings.py file.

9

Hi, thank you so much for your help. I rejigged things so now I call the verification code from a login signal and that sorted the problem out.

Also yeah the indentation things was my bad when pasting the code here.