how to make email field required in the django use

Question

I want to make the email field required in the user admin add and change pages. I read this post: Django User model email field: how to make it mandatory and I did this:

class MyUserCreationForm(UserCreationForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyUserCreationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # make user email field required
        self.fields['email'].required = True

class UserAdmin(BaseUserAdmin):
    form = MyUserCreationForm
    add_form = MyUserCreationForm
    add_fieldsets = ((None, {'fields': ('username', 'email',
'password1', 'password2'), 'classes': ('wide',)}),)

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, UserAdmin)

This works fine in add user, but in change user I get the user's encrypted password shown in the password field, instead of what you normally see:

algorithm: pbkdf2_sha256 iterations: 24000 salt: ****** hash:
**************************************
Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see this user's
password, but you can change the password using this form.

And when I try to save from the change screen it says "Please correct the errors below." even though there are no errors shown.

How can I fix these issues in the change form?

Answer 1

Have a look at the source code of the UserAdmin.

The UserAdmin uses a UserChangeForm as it's formproperty and a UserCreationForm as it's add_form property. But you have overridden both of them with a class derived from UserCreationForm which is okay for the create view but doesn't work for the update view .

from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class EmailRequiredMixin(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(EmailRequiredMixin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # make user email field required
        self.fields['email'].required = True


class MyUserCreationForm(EmailRequiredMixin, UserCreationForm):
    pass


class MyUserChangeForm(EmailRequiredMixin, UserChangeForm):
    pass


class EmailRequiredUserAdmin(UserAdmin):
    form = MyUserChangeForm
    add_form = MyUserCreationForm
    add_fieldsets = ((None, {
        'fields': ('username', 'email', 'password1', 'password2'), 
        'classes': ('wide',)
    }),)

admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.register(User, EmailRequiredUserAdmin)

This should do the trick.