Hello, in the authentication documentation is written that the user profile should be extended with a foreign key.
- http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users "If you'd like to store additional information related to your users, Django provides a method to specify a site-specific related model -- termed a "user profile" -- for this purpose. To make use of this feature, define a model with fields for the additional information you'd like to store […] and also add a ForeignKey from your model to the User model, specified with unique=True to ensure only one instance of your model can be created for each User." If you look at the model documentation you can find this extract from the text. - http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#ref-models-fields "A one-to-one relationship. Conceptually, this is similar to a ForeignKey with unique=True, but the 'reverse' side of the relation will directly return a single object. This is most useful as the primary key of a model which "extends" another model in some way […]" Why should I use a ForeignKey if I want my user profile extended? If the reverse side will return a single object, I could spare a little bit of code, if I just write: >>> "User.objects.get(username='Leon').avatar" instead of >>> "u = User.objects.get(username='Leon')" >>> "UserProfileExtension.objects.get(user=u).avatar" Comments are welcome! -ld --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
