Question

Hey everyone, I am pretty sure this is a fairly common problem.
So in order to register an account my site you need an email address from certain school domain (like facebook). This wouldn’t be that big a problem until you start integrating other apps, like django-notification and django-registration and django-socialregistration into your site where they are sending email via user.email.

I have asked my users and most of them want an ‘active_email’ option – that means that they can change the email to their designated gmail or whatever.

I have come up with the following solution which isn’t the cleanest of all:
First, I inherit from User in django.contrib.auth and call this new class MultipleEmailUser, with email=active_email and official_email=sch_email.

Then I override django.contrib.auth’s UserManager to change the API slightly,
And the most painful part is to change all the source code that has User.object.find() to MultipleEmailUser.find().

Can someone suggest me a cleaner way? (My biggest headache arise from other apps only permitting to send email to User.email.)

Answer 1

You don’t need – or want – to modify the User class. Just set up a UserProfile class with a OneToOneField back to User, and set the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting. See the documentation.