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Suraj
Suraj

Reputation: 155

Django Authenticate method not working on custom Model

I am trying the build in method authenticate() to login employees but that does not seem to work. I have not used the default model User provided by django instead I have used my own model Employee here.

Here is what I have in my views.py

def login(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        password = request.POST['password']
        emailid = request.POST['email']

        employee = auth.authenticate(username=emailid,password=password)

        if employee is not None:
            auth.login(request,employee)
            return render(request,'register/html')
        
            
                
        else:
            messages.error(request,'Email id dosent exist')
            return redirect('login')
            
    else:
        return render(request,'employee/login.html')

while my custom code does the authentication

def login(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        password = request.POST['password']
        emailid = request.POST['username']

         if Employee.objects.filter(firstname=emailid).exists():
            if Employee.objects.filter(password=password):
                messages.success(request,'Loged Out')
                return redirect('vacant-rooms')
            else:
                messages.error(request,'Wrong emailid')
                return redirect('login')
        else:
            messages.error(request,'wrong password')
            return redirect('login')
     else:
        return render(request,'employee/login.html')

Here is my model

class Employee(models.Model):
    firstname = models.CharField(max_length=15)
    lastname = models.CharField(max_length=15)
    age = models.IntegerField()
    sex = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    phoneno = models.IntegerField()
    emailid = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    address = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    salary = models.IntegerField()
    designation = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    password = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    aadharno = models.CharField(max_length=15)
    datejoined = models.DateField(default=timezone)

Its a dumb question maybe but is the buit in authentication not working because I do not have a username field in my model?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1011

Answers (1)

Ogulcan Olguner
Ogulcan Olguner

Reputation: 581

I think you shouldn't do that. Django already has a User infrastructure and to use functions like authenticate, you need to inherit one of the AbstractUser or AbstractBaseUser classes. If you just define models like that, you have to do a lot of the work that Django has already done, and I definitely don't recommend it. I leave some helpful documentation and articles below. If you need any help, write a comment and I can help as best I can.

Official Django Doc Customizing authentication

Custom User Model

How to Extend User Model

Upvotes: 1

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