Connect FanDjango user to Django User (e.g., add more attributes)

[edanm]

Hi,

I'm new to FanDjango, and trying to understand something. I've got everything set up and working beautifully, and I can pole request.facebook.user and get info.

But now, I want to develop an application that has more info than just Facebook gives me about each user. For example, I want to store up/down votes this user has mode on other objects (i.e. relations). I want to store user settings. Etc... The standard "Django Way" is to use a User Profile, but I don't know how to connect FanDjango's user to the user profile.

I'm unclear how to do this.

I looked into django-facebook before fandjango, and I couldn't get it to work which is why I moved to this. What they do is, they allow your user-profile to inherit from their user definition. Can the same kind of thing work here, or should I be doing something different?

Thanks,
And thanks for an incredibly easy-to-use package which actually just worked!
Edan

[Morpho]

Hi edanm,
I think there are many possibilities. I personally have a profile model, which has a OneToOne Field that references fandjango's User model.

from fandjango.models import User
class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
    ...

Then I just listen for the post_save signal of "Fandjango.models.User" and when the "created" parameter is set, I instantiate the Profile model.

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def profile_creation(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    if created:
        profile, created = Profile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)

[edanm]

Hi Morpho,

Yeah, that sounds like what I'm going to do as well.

I think it would be a good idea to have a reference of this in the documentation, since many people probably wonder what's the best way to do this.

[jgorset]

I think @Morpho is spot on, and we could certainly tip this in the documentation!

[ericpalakovichcarr]

FWIW, I do the same thing as @Morpho in my Fandjango project.