Extending the existing User model in Django

Question

Let's say I have an app that has 3 kinds of user

Employee with fields like work_number, department etc.
Member with fields like phone_number, .....
Agent with fields like company_name,.....

They're different.

I write models like this:

class Employee(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User) department = models.CharField(max_length=100) ....... class Member(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User) ....... class Agent(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User) .......

Now I can :

u = User.objects.get(username='xxxx') u.employee // it works...

but, ONE user has THREE profiles (employee,member,agent) !!!

It's not matches my business, the business role is ONE user could be and must be only one kind of 3 profiles.

What's the best way to solve this?

So you're saying you want a User to only be one of three profiles? How are the profiles created? — onyeka
– onyeka, Commented May 19, 2015 at 11:47

chaos · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-19 10:57:40Z

Why not have a single profile with a role associated (even if certain fields will never be filled for a specific role)?

You can handle the validation through forms and instead having 3 different models you would have 3 different forms.

This is the best solution because you can than just go to user.profile instead of user.employee, user.member etc.

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