Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help shed some light on the best approach is too creating different Users. I'm trying to make a online shop, that features two types of Users, "Customers" and "Merchants". The power of each Users vary greatly, Customers can buy items from Merchants and Merchants can (as you would expect) list new products, edit them. Merchants required additional information compared to Customers (such as Address, Contact Info, Payment details).
Now hows the best way to handle this? I've read that subclassing the User class is bad (I'm not entirely sure why though). Most examples try to extend the User class, with a UserProfile class with a OneToOne relationship to the User class (like this http://pastebin.com/GQVLrVTx). Is it better to extend that to a UserProfileMerchant and UserProfileCustomer, or have a single UserProfile, and have a boolean field to indicate if the account is a Merchant? (both examples in the following - http://pastebin.com/F8ZenCa1) Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
