django-user-mixins

User model mixins based on Django.

user_mixins model mixins give flexibility to create your own User model. By default all mixins are optional. Our mixins allow to create, identify users (from their emails instead of their username) as well as sending password reset and account validation emails.

Installation

Install the package:

pip install django-user-mixins

Install with avatar functionality:

pip install django-user-mixins[avatar]

User model

To create a custom user model using the django-user-mixins functionality, declare your user class like this:

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin
from user_mixins.mixins import ActiveUserMixin


class User(ActiveUserMixin, PermissionsMixin, AbstractBaseUser):
    pass

If you want to use the VerifyEmailMixin, substitute it for ActiveUserMixin.

Make sure the app containing your custom user model is added to settings.INSTALLED_APPS, and set settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL to be the path to your custom user model.

If you use EmailUserMixin or any of its derivatives, you'll need to set up Postgres to support a CIText extension in your migration. Add the following to your migration:

from django.contrib.postgres.operations import CITextExtension

operations = [
    CITextExtension(),
    ...
]

Mixins

ActiveUserMixin

user_mixins.mixins.ActiveUserMixin provides a base custom user mixin with a name, email, date_joined, is_staff, and is_active.

VerifyEmailMixin

user_mixins.mixins.VerifyEmailMixin extends ActiveUserMixin to provide functionality to verify the email. It includes an additional email_verified field.

By default, users will be created with is_active = False. A verification email will be sent including a link to verify the email and activate the account.

AvatarMixin

user_mixins.mixins.AvatarMixin adds an avatar field. The serializers for this field require django-imagekit to be installed.