[Django]-Avoid username field creation in custom user model for django allauth

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Looks like the only way to get rid of the username field is to override the AbstractUser‘s username field and/or use a completely custom model from the ground up. Thought overriding AbstractBaseUser should work too, albeit AbstractBaseUser provides less functionality.

class CustomUser(AbstractUser):
    # Custom user model for django-allauth
    # Remove unnecessary fields
    username = None
    first_name = None
    last_name = None
    # Set the email field to unique
    email = models.EmailField(_('email address'), unique=True)
    # Get rid of all references to the username field
    EMAIL_FIELD = 'email'
    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = []

This model will remove the username field and make the email field unique, as well as change all references to the USERNAME_FIELD to 'email'. Do note that REQUIRED_FIELDS should be empty as the USERNAME_FIELD cannot be in there. When using allauth, this is not a problem, the email and password requirement are managed by allauth anyway.

The settings that I’ve mentioned in the question should remain the same, specifically-

ACCOUNT_USER_MODEL_USERNAME_FIELD = None
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
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