Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Users and Account Management
Lecture: Add profile to user object
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I'm going to create the user profile model object in the people app. Let me just open up people models.py. And I'll start by replacing the boilerplate.
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Alright, that's all the imports I'll need I'll be referencing the user model so I need that. The profile is just a model object.
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So the usual models.model thing is required and then the next to imports are for registering the signal.
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Our user profile is going to track the favorite books of the user, so in addition to having a relationship with the user object,
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I'm also going to create a relationship with some books. Hence importing catalog.models book.
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The reader class is going to be my user profile. The 1-1 field forms the 1-1 relationship with a user object.
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Similar to foreign keys you've seen before, this requires an on delete flag to decide what to do if the user gets deleted.
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Not much point in having a profile without the user. So I've set this to cascade, meaning the profile will get deleted automatically if the user is.
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A many to many field is a relationship that indicates this object is related to many other objects of a type.
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This allows the reader to have more than one favourite book. This field is used like a query manager.
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You don't use it directly. You call methods on it to get their relations. For example, .all will return all of the users favorite books.