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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2017-02-11 13:39:35 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2019-04-07 20:09:15 -0400
commit331d76528154407927f88759c9e520494e29b914 (patch)
tree15b77185323c1fbe41e7329bb1233ac144d33f78
parentd13490c18a075799aec1951ee7e260876b5d1ba6 (diff)
[1.11.x] Refs #27807 -- Removed docs for User.username_validator.
The new override functionality claimed in refs #21379 doesn't work. Forwardport of 714fdbaa7048c2321f6238d9421137c33d9af7cc from stable/1.10.x.
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt24
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.10.txt9
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
index b503b02455..c557e8fe7a 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/auth.txt
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ Fields
usernames. Although it wasn't a deliberate choice, Unicode
characters have always been accepted when using Python 3. Django
1.10 officially added Unicode support in usernames, keeping the
- ASCII-only behavior on Python 2, with the option to customize the
- behavior using :attr:`.User.username_validator`.
+ ASCII-only behavior on Python 2.
.. versionchanged:: 1.10
@@ -167,27 +166,6 @@ Attributes
In older versions, this was a method. Backwards-compatibility
support for using it as a method will be removed in Django 2.0.
- .. attribute:: username_validator
-
- .. versionadded:: 1.10
-
- Points to a validator instance used to validate usernames. Defaults to
- :class:`validators.UnicodeUsernameValidator` on Python 3 and
- :class:`validators.ASCIIUsernameValidator` on Python 2.
-
- To change the default username validator, you can subclass the ``User``
- model and set this attribute to a different validator instance. For
- example, to use ASCII usernames on Python 3::
-
- from django.contrib.auth.models import User
- from django.contrib.auth.validators import ASCIIUsernameValidator
-
- class CustomUser(User):
- username_validator = ASCIIUsernameValidator()
-
- class Meta:
- proxy = True # If no new field is added.
-
Methods
-------
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
index 8ce6581a85..3b7ca01468 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.10.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
@@ -60,12 +60,11 @@ wasn't a deliberate choice, Unicode characters have always been accepted when
using Python 3.
The username validator now explicitly accepts Unicode characters by
-default on Python 3 only. This default behavior can be overridden by changing
-the :attr:`~django.contrib.auth.models.User.username_validator` attribute of
-the ``User`` model, or to any proxy of that model, using either
+default on Python 3 only.
+
+Custom user models may use the new
:class:`~django.contrib.auth.validators.ASCIIUsernameValidator` or
-:class:`~django.contrib.auth.validators.UnicodeUsernameValidator`. Custom user
-models may also use those validators.
+:class:`~django.contrib.auth.validators.UnicodeUsernameValidator`.
Minor features
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