Wow you're even in worse shape than I am. :) I Foreign Keyed my user profiles ( it's very hackish, PHP 3 hackish ) and had expected to need to write my own app to manage them whether I could subclass User or not. Asking the Admin Tool to acknowledge an extended user object is really being unreasonable. Of course not being able to subclass a model for use in your own tool is also being unreasonable ( albeit it's difficulte to write ).
I'd plan to write my own auth system. The admin tool is a great convieniance but not a substitute for an actual application. Vance On 8/24/06, Jakub Labath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > On 8/9/06, Vance Dubberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I very much want to subclass User as I have more than one kind of user > > > and each has a different type of profile. > > > > Which is a different situation from probably 80% of the needs people > > have for extending the User model. > > I think I'm with the 20% just the extra fields is not enough in my case. > I will need the ability to call my functions before and/or after the > User object is saved in django user admin. For example > somebody changes user's email in admin I want to call function that > will report the new email address to a webservice. > > I guess the Foreign Key solution suggested by Joe would actually work > here. Since the inline objects are getting saved with parents and I > can just override the save of the inline object. However it still > feels Hackish. > > As you can guess my auth/user system might actually span across > multiple physical servers or at least parts of the user data will. > > Am I just better off writing my own auth system altogether or does > anybody have an elegant idea how to easily extend the user system with > own function calls? > > Thanks > > > > -- Most People are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived a their opinions as the result of their own thinking – and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority -- Eric Fromm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
