Django & Djoser - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_active' when registering a new user

Question

I am trying to implement user registration using djoser. I believe I am passing in all the correct data in the body but I return a 500 error: "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_active'"

I have tried overwriting list_display and list_filter in BaseUserAdmin. I also have tried moving the is_active attribute to different areas of the model.

models.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser, AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin, BaseUserManager
from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _


# managing the creation and user and superuser
class UserAccountManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, password=None, **extra_fields):
        #  first_name, last_name,
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('Users must provide an email address.')

        email = self.normalize_email(email)
        user = self.model(email=email, **extra_fields)                          
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save()

    def create_superuser(self, email, password=None, **extra_fields):
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_active', True)
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
        extra_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)

        if extra_fields.get('is_active') is not True:
            raise ValueError('Superuser must have is_active=True.')
        if extra_fields.get('is_staff') is not True:
            raise ValueError('Superuser must have is_staff=True.')
        if extra_fields.get('is_superuser') is not True:
            raise ValueError('Superuser must have is_superuser=True.')

        return self.create_user(email, password, **extra_fields)


class User(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=255, unique=True)
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    objects = UserAccountManager()

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = []

    def __str__(self):
        return self.email

serializers.py

from djoser.serializers import UserCreateSerializer
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model

User = get_user_model()


class UserCreateSerializer(UserCreateSerializer):
    class Meta(UserCreateSerializer.Meta):
        model = User
        fields = ('id', 'email', 'password')

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 55, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 197, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 56, in wrapper_view
    return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/viewsets.py", line 125, in view
    return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 509, in dispatch
    response = self.handle_exception(exc)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 469, in handle_exception
    self.raise_uncaught_exception(exc)
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 480, in raise_uncaught_exception
    raise exc
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/views.py", line 506, in dispatch
    response = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/mixins.py", line 19, in create
    self.perform_create(serializer)
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/djoser/views.py", line 132, in perform_create
    user = serializer.save(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rest_framework/serializers.py", line 212, in save
    self.instance = self.create(validated_data)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/djoser/serializers.py", line 40, in create
    user = self.perform_create(validated_data)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/law/.local/share/virtualenvs/backend-2t9m5bj9/lib/python3.11/site-packages/djoser/serializers.py", line 50, in perform_create
    user.is_active = False
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_active'
[31/Oct/2023 20:55:55] "POST /auth/users/ HTTP/1.1" 500 111290

Answer 1

You don't return the created user:

class UserAccountManager(BaseUserManager):
    def create_user(self, email, password=None, **extra_fields):
        if not email:
            raise ValueError('Users must provide an email address.')
        email = self.normalize_email(email)
        user = self.model(email=email, **extra_fields)
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save()
        return user