Add a way to know when a user is created with the request

[thoas]

Hi again,

I need to know when a user is created by the authenticate method of the SocialAuthBackend.

Use case: when a user is automatically created by django-social-auth, I write a specific message (with the help of the messages framework) which can be only done in a request context.

I know there is a signal named socialauth_registered which is launched when a user is created but for the need of my application I have to interact with the request object.

When I look into the authenticate method of the SocialAuthBackend I find the is_new variable which is True when a user is created.

Is there any way to return this value in the authenticate process?

I also have a quick solution based on django.contrib.auth.backends.authenticate which can be done in l.150 of social_auth/backends/init.py:

user.is_new = is_new
return user

Thanks again.

[omab]

You could do that on the signal level too

def new_user(sender, user, response, details, **kwargs):
    user.is_new = True
    return False  # to avoid the unnecessary user.save()

socialauth_registered.connect(new_user)