AttributeError: 'Manager' object has no attribute 'get_by_natural_key' error in Django? AttributeError: 'Manager' object has no attribute 'get_by_natural_key' error in Django? python python

AttributeError: 'Manager' object has no attribute 'get_by_natural_key' error in Django?


You have created a new user model but you have not yet specified a manager for that model. If you're not yet familiar with managers in Django I suggest reading the documentation on that first. As the Django 1.5 say (source):

You should also define a custom manager for your User model. If your User model defines username and email fields the same as Django's default User, you can just install Django's UserManager; however, if your User model defines different fields, you will need to define a custom manager that extends BaseUserManager providing two additional methods: create_user() and create_superuser().

In short, if your model uses the same username and email fields as Django's User model then you can write:

from django.contrib.auth.models import UserManagerclass GalaxyUser(models.Model):    id = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True)    create_time = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)    update_time = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)    email = models.CharField(max_length=765)    password = models.CharField(max_length=120)    external = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)    deleted = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)    purged = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)    username = models.CharField(max_length=765, blank=True)    form_values_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)    disk_usage = models.DecimalField(null=True, max_digits=16, decimal_places=0, blank=True)    objects = UserManager()    class Meta:        db_table = u'galaxy_user'

Alternatively, you'll need to subclass BaseUserManager (also in django.contrib.auth.models) and implement the desired methods. Then, you'll need to assign it to the objects variable for your model.