Django keyerror from built in form

Question

I'm trying to create a simple form in order to add users. Im using the built in form generation UserCreationForm(). I found example code here that I used.

here is my view:

def user_add(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            new_user = User.objects.create_user(**form.cleaned_data)
            login(new_user)
            return HttpResponseRedirect('main.html')
    else:
        form = UserCreationForm() 

    return render(request, 'main/user_add_djDefault.html', {'form': form.as_p()})

The Form is genereated correctly, but when I enter data and submit it then:

Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value: 'password1' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

the error happens here:

new_user = User.objects.create_user(form.cleaned_data) 

Since the form creation and validation is based on the same model I wonder where this error comes from ...

Answer 1

You're getting the error because create_user expects a parameter called password and NOT password1 that is used in UserCreationForm.

Notice the signature for create_user:

create_user(self, username, email=None, password=None, **extra_fields)

You can try calling the method like this:

cd = form.cleaned_data
User.objects.create_user(
    username=cd.get('username'),
    password=cd.get('password1'),
)