I'll give that a shot. Thank you for your feedback. Still learning a lot as I go.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Stefano <s.apostol...@gmail.com> wrote: > why you don't create the profile only if needed ? > > class UserProfile(models.Model): > user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True) > > User.profile = property(lambda u: > UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=u)[0]) > > 2011/3/2 Jeremiah <wanderinweez...@gmail.com>: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm going through the help document (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/ > > 1.2/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users) and I'm > > starting to figure out how signals work. What I'm having problems > > with is getting my signal to trigger (or at least figuring out if the > > signal is actually triggering?) > > > > So, if I do the following from the shell (as spawned by manage.py): > >>>> import cc.models > >>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User > >>>> u = User.objects.get(username__exact="duh3") > >>>> try: > > ... u.userprofile > > ... except: > > ... profile = cc.models.UserProfile() > > ... profile.user = u > > ... profile.thing = "Test" > > ... profile.save() > > ... > > <UserProfile: duh3> > >>>> u.userprofile.user > > <User: duh3> > >>>> u.userprofile.thing > > u'Test' > > > > I can get the profile to work. So, then I add the following lines to > > my "models.py" file: > > from django.db.models.signals import post_save > > ... > > def profile_handler(sender, **kwargs): > > """ Signal handler to deal with a save on the User model """ > > try: > > sender.userprofile > > except: > > profile = cc.models.UserProfile() > > profile.user = sender > > profile.save() > > > > post_save.connect(profile_handler, sender=User) > > > > But, what i can't tell is if anything is happening. If I create a new > > user and then try userinstance.userprofile, I get the expected > > exception. > > > > Could someone please point me at my issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Jeremiah > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
