I'm trying to create a custom user using the Django Rest Framework. I got it to the point to where I can create a regular user, but I'm unsure on how to extend it to the custom user model.
models.py:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayField
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
languages = ArrayField(models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=True))
serializers.py:
from rest_framework import serializers
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
password = serializers.CharField(write_only=True)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'username', 'password')
def create(self, validated_data, instance=None):
user = super(UserSerializer, self).create(validated_data)
user.set_password(validated_data['password'])
user.save()
return user
views.py:
@api_view(['POST'])
@permission_classes((AllowAny,))
def create_user(request):
serialized = UserSerializer(data=request.data)
if serialized.is_valid():
serialized.save()
return Response(serialized.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
else:
return Response(serialized._errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
How do I extend the languages
field to the UserSerializer
to where it can process it? Would it be better to create a signal
for every time a user
is created it then creates a userprofile
automatically?