Question

Switching over from sqlite to MongoDB and I followed all of the setup/configuration settings for Django MongoDB Engine. Now when I go to add a user by returning an HTTP response from to the adduser method in views.py:

 def adduser(request):
     username = request.POST['username']
     password = request.POST['password']
     u = User.objects.create_user(username, request.POST['email'], password)
     u.save()
     a = Accounts(user=u)
     p = Passwords(user=u)
     a.save()
     p.save()
     user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
     if user is not None and user.is_active:
         auth.login(request, user)
         return HttpResponseRedirect("/%s/" %u.id)
     else:
         return HttpResponseRedirect("/account/invalid/")

This is the error I get:
DatabaseError at /adduser
relation "auth_user" does not exist

Naturally the relationship doesn’t exist since MongoDB NoSQL. Is the auth system not supported or does Mongo-engine have a better solution? Perhaps I should just move to Postgre? (sqlite cannot handle the simultaneous users so isn’t a viable option)

I saw this question but that was a year ago so hopefully things have changed by then as MongoDB has gained a lot of popularity this year.

Answer 1

MongoEngine provides authentication for Django apps with MongoDB.