I am using django-social-auth for facebook login which creates a new user if it doesn't exist in the db, else updates the existing db entry. I think it checks for fb_username OR fb_uid in the database to check if the user exists or not.
Requirements: In my application, i need to be able to create a user by manually inserting his info in db. And this row should be updated when the user logs_in with facebook.
So I manually created an entry with all the information of the user i.e. fb_username, fb_uid, email, first_name, last_name, hometown... etc.
But what happens when the user logs_in is, a new entry is created instead of updating the manually created entry. So i really don't understand what fields does it use to check if the user exists or not. What would be the best way to go from here?
Extra Info: I am extending the user model of django to UserProfile using a one-to-one relationship and AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'accounts.UserProfile'
The only way to do it was editing this default pipeline
'social_auth.backends.pipeline.user.create_user',
by changing the
def create_user(backend,details,response,username,user=None,*args,**kwargs):
if user:
return {'user': user}
if not username:
return None
to
def create_user(backend,details,response,username,user=None,*args,**kwargs):
username = User.objects.get(u_name=username)
if username:
return {'user': username}
if not username:
return None