Remote user's avatar

[ogurec-ogurec]

I have successfully installed the avatar by the guide readthedocs.

The situation is as follows: I removed everywhere (django-comments-xtd and django-avatar) the gravatar function. I display the avatars that the user has uploaded. Everything works well, but there is such a nuance, if I delete a user, an empty avatar is displayed at the comment of the deleted user. How can I check that the user is deleted, and assign, for example, default-deleted.jpg?

Avatars display in templates this:

<img src = "{% avatar_url comment.user%}" />

Bob Jenkins - is a remote user.

[danirus]

When you delete the user, the foreign key user field in the comments table becomes null.
That's the effect of the SET_NULL here in django-contrib-comments.

I can figure that the blank avatar is the effect of using the avatar_url template tag with the comment.user being None. I don't know how to modify that behavior. I would recommend you to look in its settings, maybe using this one could give you the solution.
Let us know if you find the solution.

[ogurec-ogurec]

@ danirus thanks for the hint, I found a solution.

In the file providers.py django-avatar lib:
path: /Lib/site-packages/avatar/providers.py:

class PrimaryAvatarProvider (object):

     @classmethod
     def get_avatar_url (self, user, size):
       #Add path media deleted-avatar 
       path_deleted_avatar = getattr (settings, 'MEDIA_AVATAR_DELETED', '')
       #Add deleted image
       deleted_image = 'deleted.png'

       avatar = get_primary_avatar (user, size)
       if avatar:
           return avatar.avatar_url (size)
       #if we get None instead of avatar
       elif avatar is None:
           return '%s%s' (path_deleted_avatar, deleted_image)

Result :)

[ogurec-ogurec]

Now there is a new idea, but what if you assign a first name and last name to a remote user, for example - deleted deleted?