Fixed #7932 -- Made it easier to use a custom User model with the admin. Added add_form attribute to UserAdmin and removed hard-coded dependancies to User. Thanks ElliottM for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8280 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/contrib/auth/admin.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from django import template
 from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
 from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext, ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 class GroupAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
         (_('Important dates'), {'fields': ('last_login', 'date_joined')}),
         (_('Groups'), {'fields': ('groups',)}),
     )
+    add_form = UserCreationForm
     list_display = ('username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'is_staff')
     list_filter = ('is_staff', 'is_superuser')
     search_fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email')
@@ -26,12 +28,10 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     filter_horizontal = ('user_permissions',)
 
     def add_view(self, request):
-        # avoid a circular import. see #6718.
-        from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
         if not self.has_change_permission(request):
             raise PermissionDenied
         if request.method == 'POST':
-            form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
+            form = self.add_form(request.POST)
             if form.is_valid():
                 new_user = form.save()
                 msg = _('The %(name)s "%(obj)s" was added successfully.') % {'name': 'user', 'obj': new_user}
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
                     request.user.message_set.create(message=msg + ' ' + ugettext("You may edit it again below."))
                     return HttpResponseRedirect('../%s/' % new_user.id)
         else:
-            form = UserCreationForm()
+            form = self.add_form()
         return render_to_response('admin/auth/user/add_form.html', {
             'title': _('Add user'),
             'form': form,
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ class UserAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
             'has_file_field': False,
             'has_absolute_url': False,
             'auto_populated_fields': (),
-            'opts': User._meta,
+            'opts': self.model._meta,
             'save_as': False,
-            'username_help_text': User._meta.get_field('username').help_text,
+            'username_help_text': self.model._meta.get_field('username').help_text,
             'root_path': self.admin_site.root_path,
         }, context_instance=template.RequestContext(request))