How do we use Django-allauth with lazysignup

Question

I'm using Django-allauth for social and simple login. I want that when a user who hasn't signed up or isn't logged in makes a shortlist of items, the shortlist is still present when the user signs up or logs in. So I'm using Django-lazysignup.

Right now, a new lazy_user is created everytime I'm not logged in with Facebook, or it gives me a "column user_id not unique" error. The shortlist is also not converted.

How do we integrate the two? Or how do we do this without using lazysignup?

Any help on this would be great, thanks!

Answer 1

You could use a custom user model (Django 1.5) tweaked in a way, so that it uses the session key as identifier for example. Later on signup.. just fill in the username and/or email etc.

This could make sense if you want to save the lazy users interactions even if they do not sign up (e.g. for statistical usage). I have not tested this.. but it might work. :)

Answer 2

Have a look here:

https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/327f5b60f31e9b3db18d461266084a44f04888dc/allauth/account/adapter.py#L117

and here:

https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/327f5b60f31e9b3db18d461266084a44f04888dc/allauth/socialaccount/adapter.py#L40

Here, a new User instance is created for local and social users respectively. These adapter methods can be overriden, and instead of spawning a new instance they could be changed to return an existing lazy user instance.

With django-allauth out of the box you will probably run into the problem that you don't have access to the request instance here, but I am willing to adapt allauth to match your use case...