documentation on registering the User model

This is more of a suggestion: I am using Userena with actstream, and I am not at all sure if I did this right to register the User model.

class StubsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'stubs'

    def ready(self):
        registry.register(self.get_model('Band'))
        registry.register(self.get_model('Concert'))
        registry.register(self.get_model('Location'))
        from django.contrib.auth.models import User
        registry.register(User)

Either way it would be nice to mention in the docs the right way to register the user model.

[todorvelichkov]

Actually I migrated my models registration into a separate app like end0. Now my code looks like:

from actstream import registry
from django.apps import AppConfig
from django.apps import apps as django_apps

class StreamsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'myproject.streams'

    def ready(self):
        registry.register(django_apps.get_model('auth','User'))
        registry.register(django_apps.get_model('core', 'UserProfile'))
        registry.register(django_apps.get_model('anotherapp', 'AnotherModel'))

[end0]

Not sure for <1.7, but for 1.7, if you want to register models outside of the current app, you can do the following. For my use case, I created a wholely separate “activity” app which points to both the User model and the models on which I want actions. According to the Applications docs you can call up any registered app by using the app_label.model syntax. This is a minor difference from the current docs, which use self.get_model() to register apps. That works, but is limited only to the models in the current application.

from django.apps import AppConfig, apps
from actstream import registry


class ActivityConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'activity'

    def ready(self):
        registry.register(apps.get_model('auth.user')) #registers the User (assuming you're using auth.User)
        registry.register(apps.get_model('pace.case')) #registers the other apps
        registry.register(apps.get_model('pace.attorney'))
        registry.register(apps.get_model('pace.judge'))
        registry.register(apps.get_model('pace.party'))
        registry.register(apps.get_model('pace.firm'))