Per this page on django docs, if you are entirely happy with django’s user model you can just inherit the default user model like below and add any custom fields you need in it. It already has these fields
# the models file i.e. users.models
# I put these customizations in a users app
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
# AbstractUser already has the following fields and others.
# username, first_name, last_name
# email, password, groups
class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
age = models.PositiveIntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
gender = models.CharField(choices=genders,
default=genders.female,
max_length=20, blank=True)
# to enforce that you require email field to be associated with
# every user at registration
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ["email"]Now install this new user model in the settings file
# settings file
########## Custom Auth model
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.CustomUser' # Mind the syntax here. It's <app>.<model>
# not <app>.models.<model>
##########This is all you need to do for a custom user model. Now each social account created by the allauth stores an extra data attribute containing the public information shared by the user. If you want to store that info with the user model, you can write a signal receiver for user_signed_up signal sent by allauth after registration but before login by allauth
# users.views
from django.dispatch import receiver
from allauth.account.signals import user_signed_up
@receiver(user_signed_up)
def set_gender(sender, **kwargs):
user = kwargs.pop('user')
extra_data = user.socialaccount_set.filter(provider='facebook')[0].extra_data
gender = extra_data['gender']
if gender == 'male': # because the default is female.
user.gender = 'male'
user.save()Similarly, you can use other signals like user_logged_in, pre_social_login to create some customized workflows