Merge pull request #39 from andela/bg-fix-image-link-error-164132638

#164132638 Accept image URL

authors/apps/profiles/migrations/0025_auto_20190218_0551.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.1.5 on 2019-02-18 05:51
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('profiles', '0024_auto_20190125_0803'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='userprofile',
+            name='profile_image',
+            field=models.URLField(blank=True),
+        ),
+    ]

authors/apps/profiles/migrations/0026_auto_20190218_0635.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.1.5 on 2019-02-18 06:35
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('profiles', '0025_auto_20190218_0551'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='userprofile',
+            name='profile_image',
+            field=models.URLField(blank=True, default='https://d1nhio0ox7pgb.cloudfront.net/_img/o_collection_png/green_dark_grey/512x512/plain/user.png'),
+        ),
+    ]

authors/apps/profiles/models.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class UserProfile(models.Model):
         max_length=10, choices=gender_choices, default='N')
 
     # cloudinary field
-    profile_image = CloudinaryField('image', blank=True)
+    profile_image = models.URLField(blank=True,default='https://d1nhio0ox7pgb.cloudfront.net/_img/o_collection_png/green_dark_grey/512x512/plain/user.png')
 
     # A char field for the First name
     first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)

authors/apps/profiles/serializers.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class UserProfileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     """
     Class to serialize user profile data
     """
-    profile_image = serializers.ImageField(default=None)
+    profile_image = serializers.URLField(required=False)
     gender = serializers.RegexField(
         regex='^(N|F|M)$',
         error_messages={