Karan Singh Khanna kskhannaio

Swapping the django user model during the lifecycle of a project (django 1.8 guide)

I've come to a point where I had to swap django's user model with a custom one, at a point when I already had users, and already had apps depending on the model. Therefore this guide is trying to provide the support that is not found in the django docs.

Django warns that this should only be done basically at the start of a project, so that the initial migration of an app includes the creation of the custom user model. It took a while to do, and I ran into problems created by the already existing relations between other models and auth.User.

There were good and not so good things regarding my project state, that influenced the difficulty of the job.

Things that made the swap simpler

My custom user also had an id field, that's just a usual default django id

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