When a user creates a user record for a client, the new client should should have the current logged in user's User.user_company
value.
In the problem here, I want to assign the value of the logged in user's User.user_company into the new user's clientuser.user_company
when save()
is called in the view.
here is the serializer below with the clientuser
object.
class ClientSerializers(serializers.ModelSerializer):
password2 = serializers.CharField(style={'input_type': 'password'}, write_only=True)
client_name = serializers.CharField(style={'input_type' : 'text'}, required=True)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ['email', 'username', 'password', 'password2', 'user_type', 'client_name']
extra_kwargs = {
'password': {'write_only': True}, #dont want anyone to see the password
'user_type': {'read_only': True},
}
def save(self):
clientuser = User(
#creating a user record. it will record company fk
email=self.validated_data['email'],
username=self.validated_data['username'],
user_type = 3,
first_name = self.validated_data['client_name'])
#validating the password
password = self.validated_data['password']
password2 = self.validated_data['password2']
if password != password2: #trying to match passwords.
raise serializers.ValidationError({'password': 'Passwords must match.'})
clientuser.set_password(password) #setting the password
clientuser.save() #saving the user
return clientuser
I've tried using
cur_usr = User()
param = 'user_company'
usr_comp = getattr(u, param)
print(f'usr_comp is {usr_comp})
print statement prints usr_comp is None
in the terminal
I've also tried using
curr_User_Company = User.user_company
user.user_company = curr_User_Company
it returns the following line in the terminal
raise ValueError(
ValueError: Cannot assign "<django.db.models.fields.related_descriptors.ForwardManyToOneDescriptor object at 0x04B05F28>": "User.user_company" must be a "Company" instance.
Here is my user model
class User(AbstractUser):
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name="email", max_length=60, unique=True)
user_type_data = ((1,"sysAdmin"),(2,"CompanyAdmin"), (3,"Client"), (4,"Employee"))
user_type = models.IntegerField(choices=user_type_data, default=2)
user_company = models.ForeignKey('Company', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
#if user is CompAdmin then company is the company he belongs to
#if user is Client then company is the company he is serviced by
#if user is Employee then company is the company he works for
#if user is sysAdmin then company is null
Here is my view
@csrf_exempt
@permission_classes([IsAuthenticated])
def ClientApi(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
data = JSONParser().parse(request)
serializer = ClientSerializers(data=data)
if serializer.is_valid():
serializer.save()
return JsonResponse(serializer.data, status=201)
return JsonResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
I'm not sure if this is necessary, but if it is, here is a sample of the data i tried to pass through Postman
{
"email":"[email protected]",
"username":"Maximillian",
"password":"AmgRacingBetterThanRedBull",
"password2":"AmgRacingBetterThanRedBull",
"client_name" : "MaximillianRacing"
}
CodePudding user response:
Maybe you should used this:
from django.contrib.auth import get_user
and this:
clientuser = User(
#creating a user record. it will record company fk
email=self.validated_data['email'],
username=self.validated_data['username'],
///
user_company = get_user(self.request).user_company /// this line get you user_company from logged user
CodePudding user response:
Finally figured it out. I added current_user parameter to the save()
function and assigned the user_company to the value of current_user.user_company
def save(self, current_user):
usr_comp = current_user.user_company
clientUser = User(///
user_company = usr_comp)
In the ClientApi
view, here's what I did
serializer.save(current_user = request.user)