Django User and AbstractBaseUser

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.