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Am facing a crisis in my authentication system, during registration some of the fields like first and lastname, password, etc are not stored in the database which makes the login attempts return a 401 error, I have also tested with postman and in preview it shows invalid credentials. I have put a print statement in my registerView class to check if all the data fields reach the backend and it shows that indeed they do

# Register User
class RegisterView(APIView):
permission_classes = [AllowAny]
def post(self, request):
print("Incoming Data from React:", request.data)
serializer = UserSerializer(data=request.data)
if serializer.is_valid():
user = serializer.save()
return Response({"message": "User registered succefully"}, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)


The print statement in the register view class shows this data.

Incoming Data from React: {'FirstName': 'Baker', 'lastName': 'Amos', 'username': 'baker', 'email': 'suubikaneb4@gmail.com', 'password': '1234', 'confirm_password': '1234', 'role': 'student', 'student_number': '24/U/26049/EVE', 'course_name': 'Computer Science', 'subject_taught': '', 'college': 'computing_and_informations', 'department': 'computer_science', 'lecture_number': ''}


And this is how data is stored in the database;

{'id': 14, 'password': '', 'last_login': None, 'is_superuser': False, 'username': 'baker', 'first_name': '', 'last_name': '', 'email': 'suubikaneb4@gmail.com', 'is_staff': False, 'is_active': True, 'date_joined': datetime.datetime(2025, 3, 11, 9, 25, 44, 136188, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'role': 'student', 'student_number': None, 'course_name': None, 'college': 'computing_and_informations', 'Lecture_number': None, 'subject_taught': None, 'department': 'computer_science'}


As you can see the first and last name, password and other fields are all empty.

I have tried to play with my register serializer class which i believe might be causing the issues just to ensure that the missing fields can also be saved to the database but still not achieving results

class RegisterSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = [
'first_name', 'last_name', 'username', 'email', 'password', 'confirm_password', 'role',
'student_number', 'course_name', 'college',
'lecture_number', 'subject_taught', 'department'
]
extra_kwargs = {
'password': {'write_only': True},
'confirm_passwaord': {'write_only': True}
}

def validate(self, data):
if data['password'] != data['confirm_password']:
raise serializers.ValidationError({"password": "Passwords do not match."})

role = data.get('role')

if role == 'student':
if not all([data.get('student_number'), data.get('course_name'), data.get('college')]):
raise serializers.ValidationError(
{"student_info": "Students must provide student number, course name, and college."}
)

elif role == 'lecturer':
if not all([data.get('lecture_number'), data.get('subjects_taught'), data.get('department')]):
raise serializers.ValidationError(
{"lecturer_info": "Lecturers must provide lecturer number, subjects taught, and department."}
)

elif role == 'academic_registrar':
if not data.get('college'):
raise serializers.ValidationError(
{"academic_registrar_info": "Academic Registrars must belong to a college."}
)

elif role == 'admin':
if not data.get('college'):
raise serializers.ValidationError(
{"admin_info": "Administrators must be assigned to a college or the university."}
)

return data

def create(self, validated_data):
validated_data.pop('confirm_password') # Remove confirm_password before saving

# Ensure first_name & last_name are properly extracted
first_name = validated_data.pop('first_name', '')
last_name = validated_data.pop('last_name', '')

validated_data['password'] = make_password(validated_data['password']) # Hash the password
user = User.objects.create(**validated_data, first_name=first_name, last_name=last_name)

return user


My user serializer looks like this:

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ['id', 'username', 'email', 'role', 'college', 'department']


Fellows please do help if you can

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