django-rest-auth custom registration fails to save extra fields

Question

I am using DRF and for login/registration I am using Django-rest-auth.

1. I have customized User model to have extra fields
2. I have custom registration s

Answer 1

It seems like django-allauth doesn't allow saving custom fields by default:

(ref: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/master/allauth/account/adapter.py#L227)

To go around it, simply assign the custom field values before doing user.save()

self.cleaned_data = self.get_cleaned_data()
adapter.save_user(request, user, self)
setup_user_email(request, user, [])

user.address = self.cleaned_data.get('address')
user.user_type = self.cleaned_data.get('user_type')

user.save()
return user

That was a dirty fix. A cleaner way would be to override the allauth adapter to support your custom fields.

Answer 2

To override the default adapter and save the custom fields try the following

Create an adapters.py file in your app root folder and paste the code below

from allauth.account.adapter import DefaultAccountAdapter


class CustomUserAccountAdapter(DefaultAccountAdapter):

    def save_user(self, request, user, form, commit=True):
        """
        Saves a new `User` instance using information provided in the
        signup form.
        """
        from allauth.account.utils import user_field

        user = super().save_user(request, user, form, False)
        user_field(user, 'address', request.data.get('address', ''))
        user_field(user, 'first_name', request.data.get('first_name', ''))
        user_field(user, 'last_name', request.data.get('last_name', ''))
        user_field(user, 'user_type', request.data.get('user_type', ''))
        user.save()
        return user

Lastly set the settings configuration to use your custom adapter by adding this line in the settings.py file

ACCOUNT_ADAPTER = 'users.adapters.CustomUserAccountAdapter'