Custom API key model w/o default `APIKey` table or admin

I would like to be able to inherit AbstractAPIKey directly from the model, without having to reference it via foreignkey, and also I would like django, to not create these tables at all:

class APIKey(AbstractAPIKey):
    pass

I would like to: Inherit the Abstract class, without having to reference the model.

I would solve it by: Not installing the app at all, if we migrated the code of the abstract base class away from models.py, we would be able to inherit without problems.

[stpddream]

I have a similar need here. Would like to

• have my own CustomizedAPIKey that extends AbstractApiKey
• I don’t need the default APIKey model and would like to remove the table from db & admin options as it will be very confusing.

Not installing the app causes a similar error as discussion above: RuntimeError: Model class rest_framework_api_key.models.APIKey doesn't declare an explicit app_label and isn't in an application in INSTALLED_APPS.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!

[florimondmanca]

I think we’d also want to remove the admin.site.register(APIKey, APIKeyModelAdmin) call in rest_framework_api_key/admin.py, and have users explicitly register the default APIKey if they’d like. It could be done as a first step so users don’t see APIKey if they don’t want to, but also if we decide to have a swappable API_KEY_MODEL setting, that’d be required as otherwise we’d be registering a model from a different app, which isn’t desirable (and could lead to conflicts).