tschellenbach/Django-facebook — Issue #88: Updating User details after connecting
Author: martinrwilson
Created: 2012-02-27 15:13:38+00:00
State: open

Once a user has been authenticated we want to update their local (i.e. in our database) details (first_name, last_name, etc) with those from Facebook.
Looking at connect.connect_user and connect._update_user for this to happen it seems we need to:
- Set an attribute 'fb_update_required' on User
- Make sure the fields we want to be updated are empty.

I've managed to do this by subclassing FacebookBackend.authenticate - however, is there an easier way?! I'm new to Django (from Java) so perhaps I'm missing something simple here.
Thanks,
Martin