How to create a new user with django rest framework and custom user model
I think one password field is enough. If you want to check the user's twice password input is same, do it in the front-end. You can override a create
method from serializer like following.
from rest_framework import serializersclass UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): password = serializers.CharField(write_only=True) class Meta: model = User fields = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'mobile', 'password') def create(self, validated_data): user = super(UserSerializer, self).create(validated_data) user.set_password(validated_data['password']) user.save() return user
views.py
from rest_framework import genericsfrom rest_framework.permissions import AllowAnyfrom .models import Userfrom .serializers import UserSerializerclass UserCreateAPIView(generics.CreateAPIView): queryset = User.objects.all() serializer_class = UserSerializer permission_classes = (AllowAny,)