Question

I have the following subclass:

class UserProfile(User):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, parent_link=True)

And an UserProfileAdmin:

class UserProfileAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    # stuff
admin.site.register(UserProfile, UserProfileAdmin)

This admin displays a change password link /admin/customer/userprofile/1548/password/ under the password field. But i get the following error:

invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1548/password'

I want to use the same change password form as in auth.User and after change is made i want to be redirected to UserProfileAdmin. How can i do that?

Answer 1

It is the expected behavior because:

/admin/customer/userprofile/1548/password/

Wants to display the change form for userprofile with id ‘1548/password’.

Extending the User class is not the way to store extra data per user. Read the documentation on Storing additional information about users for instruction on how to do it the right way.

That said, you can if you want this url to open the admin change password page, you can do a redirect as such:

# put **before** include(admin.site.urls)
url(r'/admin/customer/userprofile/(?P<id>\d+)/password/$', 'views.redirect_to_password'),

And in views.py:

from django import shortcuts

def redirect_to_password(request, id):
    return shortcuts.redirect('/admin/auth/user/%s/password/' % id)

If you also want to redirect the /admin/auth/user/1234 to /admin/customer/userprofile/1234, then you could add this:

url(r'/admin/auth/user/(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'views.redirect_to_customer_changeform'),

Would work with a similar view:

from django import shortcuts

def redirect_to_customer_changeform(request, id):
    return shortcuts.redirect('/admin/customer/userprofile/%s/' % id)