Django User and AbstractBaseUser

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I am working on creating a website with user profiles but I have run into a problem. I am very confused about how User works in Django. Here is my current code: In Models.py

from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Profile(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User) username = models.CharField(max_length=20) first_name = models.CharField(max_length=20) last_name = models.CharField(max_length=20) biography = models.TextField(max_length=1000) votes = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True) timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False, null=True ) def __unicode__(self): return unicode(self.user.username) class Post(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) title = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False) body = models.TextField(blank=False) description = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False) keywords = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) votes = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True) def __unicode__(self): return unicode(self.title)

In my settings.py I have AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'models.Profile' set.

Now When I go into the Admin site and create a new Profile, it has a User field where I have to choose a user. The User that I have to choose from is my Django Admin superuser that I created with python manage.py createsuperuser. To create a new User entirely and not be linked to the Django Admin superuser, should I be making a custom User using AbstractBaseUser instead? I followed some tutorials and they seem to all use the auth.User method. Am I doing something wrong here?

doniyor · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-17 23:38:01Z

you better use ForeignKey in Post Model, since one person can have many posts, right?

class Profile(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name="user_profile") ... class Post(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(Profile, related_name="user_posts")

and you dont set AUTH_USER_MODEL, you set it if you want to customize the authentication backend, I think you want to use django's built-in User Model to authentication. so no need for AUTH_USER_MODEL in settings

with the models above, you can access profile in views like this:

user_profile = request.user.user_profile user_profile.keywords ...

and in admin, you just need to create another new django user object, to be able to assign it to a new user profile object.

Thanks for the info! It seems to be working as I need. Now the admin page shows the username of each Profile object and not the superuser name. When I make a new user by making a Profile object through my views, they show no User selected in their admin page. Instead it is blank, but I am still able to choose a User from the dropdown box. That doesn't feel correct to me.
@tear728 if you create a new user profile, it is clear that the new profile doesnot have a user model relation yet, hence the empty dropdown.
yeah i just figured that out when I went and tried to add the new profile to a user with a profile already assigned to it and it wouldn't let me. thanks again

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