^{Originally posted by kevinrenskers March 18, 2024}
After updating to DRF 3.15.0 I am now getting the following error when starting my Django server:

<class 'rest_framework.authtoken.admin.TokenAdmin'>: (admin.E039) An admin for model "User" has to be registered to be referenced by TokenAdmin.autocomplete_fields.

I am using a custom AdminSite instance where only the ModelAdmins that I specifically register to it are shown in my admin site. I have not registered TokenAdmin to my AdminSite, because it's not something we want to see in our admin site. I also have a custom User model, but its ModelAdmin is registered with my custom AdminSite.

It seems that DRF can't handle this situation. I guess that it only looks through the default AdminSite for what is registered there? How can I make DRF just ignore the TokenAdmin? I don't want it in our admin site, as we don't use tokens (only sessions).