Hi JJ, On 12/01/2014 05:58 PM, JJ Zolper wrote: > I'm just curious if anyone around the community has an interest in > discussing the possibility of adding a "MultiEmailField" to Django? > > Here is what I found when roaming the internet: > > https://github.com/fle/django-multi-email-field > > Basically, the reason I care is because on my website I'm building the > ability to manage multiple e-mails on the user's profile. So on sites of > the caliber of facebook, google, twitter, and so on allow a person to have > multiple e-mails listed. Then for example select which one they want to be > their "primary" e-mail. My thoughts would be then which ever one my user > selects I would copy that selection from the "multiple email field > management view" to the django.auth.user "email" field. So basically > whatever they pick on my management for multiple emails set that to the > default email field on a Django user. That way for my code that uses the > django auth user email field for login handling (with the password) it can > verify if it shall allow that user to login. Again, this primary email is > the center of the entire users interaction in terms of authentication and I > am aiming to show them say a check mark next to which one they have chosen. > The rest of the e-mail addresses could serve other purposes. For sites like > facebook, google, etc they could be recovery email addresses, but for me I > would check the extensions. So for what I'm doing I would check within the > list of emails the user has if say it has the "vt.edu" extension if they > were trying to join a college community and so on. > > So I think by now I've explained my reasoning behind wanting some sort of > multiple email field. I would use it to set which email is the primary as > well as allow them to add multiple emails to then verify their identities > but also use some for recovery of an account for example. > > Does anyone agree with me that they would like to see this functionality > native in Django?
I agree with the use-case, but I don't think a MultiEmailField is the best implementation. It is better to have a linked table of email addresses with a ForeignKey to User (or perhaps an ArrayField, if you're using Postgres, which will soon be built-in.) Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/547D1089.5030905%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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