There’s a way to achieve that without touching the core model, and without inheritance, but it’s definitely hackish and I would use it with extra care. If you look at Django’s doc on signals, you’ll see there’s one called class_prepared, which is basically sent once any actual model class has been created by the metaclass. … Read more
UPDATE 2020-01-02 ⚠ The following answer was never updated to the latest Python and Django versions. Since writing this a few years ago packages have been released to solve this problem. Nowadays I highly recommend using django-crum which implements the same technique but has tests and is updated regularly: https://pypi.org/project/django-crum/ The least obstrusive way is … Read more
There are a few strategies listed in the CBV docs: Decorate the view when you instantiate it in your urls.py (docs) urlpatterns = [ path(‘view/’,login_required(ViewSpaceIndex.as_view(..)), … ] The decorator is applied on a per-instance basis, so you can add it or remove it in different urls.py routes as needed. Decorate your class so every instance … Read more
You should write a custom authentication backend. Something like this will work: from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend class EmailBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=None, **kwargs): UserModel = get_user_model() try: user = UserModel.objects.get(email=username) except UserModel.DoesNotExist: return None else: if user.check_password(password): return user return None Then, set that backend as your auth backend in … Read more
For the “best of both worlds” you could combine S.Lott’s solution with the xsendfile module: django generates the path to the file (or the file itself), but the actual file serving is handled by Apache/Lighttpd. Once you’ve set up mod_xsendfile, integrating with your view takes a few lines of code: from django.utils.encoding import smart_str response … Read more
The least painful and indeed Django-recommended way of doing this is through a OneToOneField(User) property. Extending the existing User model … If you wish to store information related to User, you can use a one-to-one relationship to a model containing the fields for additional information. This one-to-one model is often called a profile model, as … Read more