[Django]-Add users logged in through Python Social Auth to a group

I’m geeting the same issues trying to add a user in a group using python-social-auth

The error: ‘function’ object has no attribute connect

Here is my myapp.pipeline.py

from django.db.models import signals
from django.dispatch import Signal
from social.pipeline.user import *

from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Group
from social.utils import module_member

def new_users_handler(sender, user, response, details, **kwargs):
    user.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name='candidates'))

user_details.connect(new_users_handler, sender=None)

And my app.settings.py

SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = (
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_details',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_uid',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.auth_allowed',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.social_user',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.associate_by_email',
    'social.pipeline.user.get_username',
    'social.pipeline.user.create_user',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.associate_user',
    'social.pipeline.social_auth.load_extra_data',
    'social.pipeline.user.user_details',
    'companies.pipeline.new_users_handler',
)

So to make a workaround, I did the following:

Step 1: Kept the python-social-auth pipeline (without ‘companies.pipeline.new_users_handler’)

Step 2: in settings.py added SOCIAL_AUTH_NEW_USER_REDIRECT_URL = ‘/social/success/’

Step 3: added a url for the /social/success/

Step 4: added a function in views.py like

@login_required(login_url="/login")
def socialsuccess(request):
    defaultgroup = Group.objects.get(name = 'name')
    user = request.user
    user.groups.add(defaultgroup)

    return render(request, 'app/social-success.html') 

It works just fine. But I still think this is not the best approach.

Regards

For:

• social_auth_core: 4.0.3
• social_auth_app_django: 4.0.0

You need to create a file to hold your custom pipelines (eg company.social_auth_pipelines.py) and then add to that the following function:

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

def new_users_handler(backend, user, response, *args, **kwargs):
    user.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name='students'))

You then need to register the pipeline with social core, so in your settings.py, find the SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE entry and add your pipeline to it. I added mine just below social_core.pipeline.social_auth.associate_user eg:

...
'social_core.pipeline.social_auth.associate_user',
'company.social_auth_pipelines.new_users_handler',
'social_core.pipeline.social_auth.load_extra_data',
...

There’s a new user signal on django-social-auth

from social_auth.signals import socialauth_registered

def new_users_handler(sender, user, response, details, **kwargs):
    user.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name='mygroup'))

socialauth_registered.connect(new_users_handler, sender=None)

This code is not tested (I’m not on my computer now) but it should give you an idea.

For those who are using Python Social Auth and might need to add User to some Group, here is the code I use:

#pipeline.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

def save_to_group(backend, user, response, *args, **kwargs):
    defaultgroup = Group.objects.get(name = 'blah')
    user.groups.add(defaultgroup)

And add it to SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE

#settings.py
SOCIAL_AUTH_PIPELINE = {
  ...
  'app_name.pipeline.save_to_group'
}